The Story of Seven-Hundred Polish Children

0.0(0 votes)Jan 1, 196718m

Overview

This 1967 documentary tells the story of 734 Polish children who were adopted by New Zealand in 1944 as WWII refugees. Moving interviews, filmed 20 years later, document their harrowing exodus from Poland: via Siberian labour camps, malnutrition and death, to being greeted by PM Peter Fraser on arrival in NZ. From traumatic beginnings the film chronicles new lives (as builders, doctors, educators, and mothers) and ends with a family beach picnic. Made for television, this was one of the last productions directed by pioneering woman filmmaker Kathleen O'Brien.

Director

Kathleen O'Brien

Status

Released

Language

English

Top Cast

Tim Eliott

Tim Eliott

Narrator

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