Bread & Roses

Bread & Roses

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 18, 1993

Runtime

3h 14m

Genres

Drama, War

User Score

80%

Original Title

Bread & Roses

Production Companies

Preston Laing, New Zealand Film Commission

Director

Gaylene Preston

Budget

$2,500,000

Description

Based upon the life of activist and trade unionist (and later MP) Sonja Davies. The film covers her life up to 1956, when, at age 33, she was elected to the Nelson Hospital Board. During this period she develops strong socialist beliefs, marries and divorces, at age 17 trains as a nurse, has a romance (and a child) with an American marine who is killed in WWII action. She battles tuberculosis and marries a former boyfriend when he returns from the war. She becomes part of a women's ill-fated campaign to save the Nelson railway line from closure and begins to be elected to political bodies.