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Lee Tamahori
Birth at
17 June 1950
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Lee Tamahori was born in 1950 in the capital of New Zealand Wellington. His father belonged to the Maori tribe, his mother was English. His career Li Tamahori began with advertising business, was an artist and photographer. He entered the cinema in the late 1970s, first working as a sound operator, then, in the first half of the 1980s, as an assistant director. For about ten years Tamahori shot commercials, and very successfully - a number of his works were awarded professional awards. In the mid-1980s,
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Lee Tamahori was born in 1950 in the capital of New Zealand Wellington. His father belonged to the Maori tribe, his mother was English. His career Li Tamahori began with advertising business, was an artist and photographer. He entered the cinema in the late 1970s, first working as a sound operator, then, in the first half of the 1980s, as an assistant director. For about ten years Tamahori shot commercials, and very successfully - a number of his works were awarded professional awards. In the mid-1980s, he also made his television debut, producing several television series based on Ray Bradbury. Lee Tamahori’s debut as a director of “big” cinema took place in 1994, when he staged the film “Once Were Warriors” based on the novel by Alan Duff, dedicated to the fate of the Maori people. The film was warmly received by the audience, and the director was soon invited to Hollywood. His next work was the film Mulholland Rock (1996), in which Tamahori tried to revive the traditions of the “black detective” of the 50s and which some critics compare with the later “Secrets of Los Angeles”. Then the director brought on the set of the thriller “On the Edge” (1997) Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin, shot the crime film “And the Spider Came” (2000) with Morgan Freeman (sequel to the thriller “Kiss the Girls”). In 2002, Lee Tamahori acted as the director of the anniversary, twentieth, film of the unforgettable “bond” – “Die, but not now”, although he expressed a desire after working with Hollywood studios to return to his homeland to make a film there with the participation of independent producers.