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Release Date:
June 11, 2004
Original Title:
In My Father's Den
Alternate Titles:
El refugio de mi padre
Genres:
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Production Companies:
Element X
IFMD Ltd.
Little Bird
NZ on Air
New Zealand Film Commission
T.H.E. Films
The Film Coy
UK Film Council
Visionview Productions
Production Countries:
New Zealand | United Kingdom
Ratings / Certifications:
CH: 12 DE: 12 ES: 16 GB: 15 NZ: 16
Runtime: 126
Paul (Macfadyen), a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to the death of his father, battle-scarred and world-weary. For the discontented sixteen-year-old Celia (Barclay) he opens up a world she has only dreamed of. She actively pursues a friendship with him, fascinated by his cynicism and experience of the world beyond her small-town existence. But many, including the members of both their families (Otto, Moy), frown upon the friendship and when Celia goes missing, Paul becomes the increasingly loathed and persecuted prime suspect in her disappearance. As the violent and urgent truth gradually emerges, Paul is forced to confront the family tragedy and betrayal that he ran from as a youth, and to face the grievous consequences of silence and secrecy that has surrounded his entire adult life.
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Art Direction:
Philip Ivey
Author:
Maurice Gee
Costume Design:
Kirsty Cameron
Director:
Brad McGann
Director of Photography:
Stuart Dryburgh
Editor:
Chris Plummer
Executive Producer:
Sue Bruce-Smith
Original Music Composer:
Simon Boswell
Producer:
Trevor Haysom
Dixie Linder
Production Design:
Jennifer Kernke
Screenplay:
Brad McGann
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