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The Convert is a 2023 historical drama film directed by Lee Tamahori, and starring Guy Pearce, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne and Te Kohe Tuhaka. The script for the film was written by Tamahori and Shane Danielsen from a story by Michael Bennett based on the 2011 novel Wulf by Hamish Clayton. It is an international co-production between New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom.[2]

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In 1830, Thomas Munro, a lay minister from Britain, arrives in New Zealand on a storm-stricken ship and, during a clash between two Māori tribes, intercedes on behalf of Rangimai, a young daughter of Maianui, the chieftain (rangatira) of the one tribe, to save her from being killed by the warriors of Akatarewa, rangatira of the other tribe, trading his horse with Akatarewa in return for her life. Having been delivered to a British settlement called Epworth, where Munro is to perform missionary work, he becomes Rangimaiā€™s religion tutor in Christianity.

Although the settlers live on the land of Maianuiā€™s tribe under agreement with the tribe, Rangimai and Pahirua, a young Māori warrior left by Maianui with Rangimai for his daughterā€™s protection and to assist her in religious studies, face discrimination and prejudice from the rest of the settlement. Pahirua is surreptitiously murdered and Munro refuses to report to Maianui the cover story made by the settlers. He advises Maianui however to raise the rent the people of Epworth pay to his tribe, instead of taking any punitive action against the settlers; he then teaches the Māori warriors a faster way of loading aĀ flintlockĀ musket. In the tribeā€™sĀ wharenuiĀ at a gathering of the elders, Munro tells them about his past as a soldier in the British Army, a charge which he led against what was believed to be an enemy stronghold which turned into a massacre of innocent women and children in a school, and about his subsequent spiritual quest for redemption for his actions.

In an attempt to negotiate reconciliation between the two tribes, Munro sails to Akatarewaā€™s land in the same British ship that brought him to New Zealand. Akatarewa rejects Munroā€™s peace overtures and his warriors capture the ship, with a consignment of muskets onboard, in order to use the shipā€™s artillery in a decisive clash with Maianuiā€™s tribe. Munro joins in that final battle on Maianuiā€™s side, whose warriors defeat Akatarewaā€™s tribe. Maianui executes Akatarewa; in order to achieve lasting peace between their tribes, Rangimai agrees to marry Akatarewaā€™s son, whose life Maianui has spared.

Four years later, Munro, with a tā moko on his face, acts as a counsellor to the combined Māori tribe in their negotiations with a British delegation seeking to establish a Customs & Excise post at Epworth.

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