Bread & Roses backdrop
Bread & Roses poster
Trailer
Bread & Roses
8.0
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3h 14m
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1993
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Released
Overview
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.

Cast
Geneviève Picot poster
Geneviève Picot
Sonja
Mick Rose poster
Mick Rose
Charlie
Donna Akersten poster
Donna Akersten
mrs. Mackersey
Raymond Hawthorne poster
Raymond Hawthorne
Mr. Mackersey
Tina Regtien poster
Tina Regtien
Con
Erik Thomson poster
Erik Thomson
Red
Theresa Healey poster
Theresa Healey
Peggy
Frances Kewene poster
Frances Kewene
Maisie
Emily Perkins poster
Emily Perkins
Joan
Larissa Matheson poster
Larissa Matheson
Dot
William Walker poster
William Walker
Wally
Katherine McRae poster
Katherine McRae
Syd
Janet Fisher poster
Janet Fisher
Ruth Page
Jo Briant poster
Jo Briant
Barbara
Ralph Johnson poster
Ralph Johnson
Snr Det. Thompson
Katy Beasley poster
Katy Beasley
T.B. Ward Sister

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