The Ground We Won

Name: New Zealand Film Commission
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"Rugby and farming are so heavily branded as symbols of national identity that you might wonder what relationship the images bear to real rugby-playing farmers in 2015. Confessed ‘rugby outsiders’, husband and wife filmmakers...

New Zealand Production

Feature 2015 Documentary 91.00 minutes

The Ground We Won is a cinéma-vérité study of manhood as observed through the rites and rituals of a rural New Zealand rugby club. With great bawdiness and backbone, an eclectic team of farmers strive to redeem themselves from a long run of bitter losses. In the face of the hefty demands of farming and fatherhood, the Saturday game becomes the focus of the men’s passions and the ground on which their worth is proved. Made by the creators of the acclaimed documentary How Far is Heaven, this rich experience of mud-soaked camaraderie is not to be missed.