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Angel Mine

1978 New Zealand fantasy fiction film

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ117004827 ↗
Source-derived summary

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Angel Mine is a 1978 New Zealand fantasy fiction film.

Synopsis

Angel Mine is advertised as a drug for automatically solving marital problems. A young Auckland middle class suburban couple become entangled in this surrealistic world switching between reality and fantasy while attempting to model their lives on media advertising in a world of black leather and punk music.

Cast

Derek Ward as The Man

Jennifer Redford as The Woman

Myra De Groot as Nun

Michael Wilson

Reviews

1978 The Press "Caution: viewing may be damaging".

1994 Cinema Papers New Zealand Supplement.

2001 Festival/Awards: NZ Drifting Clouds Film Festival.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Angel Mine” as 1978 New Zealand fantasy fiction film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Angel, Mine and Zealand.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 1994, 2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Angel, Mine and Zealand providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Angel Mine”, the useful work is to connect “1978 New Zealand fantasy fiction film” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q117004827. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1978, 1994 and 2001.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Angel Mine” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.