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| THE RAINBOW WARRIORS OF WAIHEKE ISLAND |
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A film by Susanne Raes
Netherlands | 2010 | 90' | 58' |
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Five European activists, Susi, Rien, Martini, Henk and Hanne, and Bunny from New-Zealand, were at a time all part of the crew of Rainbow Warrior and took part in a series of successful actions until 25 years ago. a bomb attack put an end to these.
Now they are living together on Waiheke, a small New Zealand island. Advancing age causes them to make up the balance: have their ideals proven to be tenable, and what has their activist past achieved for the world and for themselves?
In 1978 a group of young people in London bought an old fishing boat to go and save whales, as part of the Greenpeace movement. The ship travels from Europe to America to eventually start a campaign in the Pacific against the French nuclear tests there. The Rainbow Warrior mission came to a tragic end in 1985 when the ship was bombed by the French Secret Service, in Auckland New Zealand. Photographer Fernando Pereira was killed in this attack. For the six activists the bomb was a turning point in their lives. Susi, who once signed the purchase of the Rainbow Warrior, wrote a book about her life. Henk built his own boat, engineer Hanne retired in an ecovillage, deckhand Bunny became Director General New Zealand in the growing Greenpeace organisation. Martini, the proud navigator, became a family man and tries to control his anger by taking pills. Rien, the ship's cook tries to make ends meet by making jams. All of them contininue, in their own way, to fight for the preservation of the world.
The film includes archive material that has never been shown and brings to life a piece of modern history.
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