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The Man Who Lost His Head is a 2-hour comedy drama written by Mark Wallington and starring Martin Clunes about the theme of cultural repatriation. It was a joint production of TVNZ in New Zealand and ITV in the United Kingdom.
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The Man Who Lost His Head: Directed by Terry Johnson. With Martin Clunes, John Callen, Gareth Reeves, John Leigh. Martin Clunes plays a curator from an English museum who is being asked to return a mystical Maori relic to New Zealand.
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- Comedy
- Terry Johnson
- 2007-08-26
When a Maori carved head is put forward for exhibition it comes to the attention of a small community in the northern part of the country. Led by Zac, they make a claim to repatriate the mask and so Ian is sent over to help sort it all out but under no circumstances let their claim be valid.
Ian Bennet is a curator at the British Imperial Museum. The drama follows his journey from the dusty back rooms of the museum to the seductive and wild scenery of the west coast of New Zealand, as he gets out of his depth in the wrangling over the return of an ancient Maori carving. IMDb 6.9 1 h 32 min 2007. 16+.
Martin Clunes stars as a straight-laced museum curator who finds himself travelling to New Zealand to settle a dispute with a Maori community about an ancient carving - with unexpected consequences.
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Zac (Calvin Tuteao), the purist who first traced the head, is enraged: the head is sacred and must be housed in marae. He and the other elders manage to delay Ian's return while they prepare an appeal. It's just long enough for hard-hearted Ian to become seduced by his new surroundings.
