Forgotten Silver

Oct 3, 1997

0h 53m

★ 7.2

Overview

The life story of Colin McKenzie, a forgotten pioneer of international cinema who was born in rural New Zealand in 1888.

Genres

Comedy

TV Movie

Production Companies

WingNut Films

New Zealand Film Commission

NZ on Air

Forgotten Silver Trailers

Cast

Narrator (voice)

Jeffrey Thomas

Self

Peter Jackson

Self

Costa Botes

Hannah McKenzie

Beatrice Ashton

Self

Leonard Maltin

Self

Harvey Weinstein

Self

Sam Neill

Self

Johnny Morris

Self

John O'Shea

May Belle (uncredited)

Sarah McLeod

Soldier Firing Machine Gun in Gallipolli (uncredited)

Charlie McClellan

Colin McKenzie (uncredited)

Thomas Robins

Two beautiful and different girls, Alice and Lisette are 17 years old, when forcibly removed from their Alsatian family to cooperate in the war effort in Germany. After spending six months in a indoctrination camp, they are both sent to a munitions factory where they are tasked to perform inhuman works. An explosion erupts, they are suspected of sabotage and threatened with being sent to a boot camp. Alice and Lisette believe they saved when transferred to a maternity where they continue living the hell of war.

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No overview available.

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