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Blerta Revisited

2001 New Zealand documentary 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 revisionFeb 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ121675548 ↗
Source-derived summary

Blerta Revisited is a 2001 New Zealand documentary starring Bruno Lawrence and Ian Watkin.

It was directed by Geoff Murphy.

Synopsis

This is a collection of comedy skits, musical interludes and films from the Blerta archives.

BLERTA was the 'Bruno Lawrence Electric Revelation and Travelling Apparition'.

Cast

Production

The production includes archive footage of Bruno Lawrence who had died in 1995. Extracts were taken from a 1976 six part series.

Reviews

The film was screened at the New Zealand International Film Festival in 2001.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Blerta Revisited” as 2001 New Zealand documentary film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Blerta, Revisited 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—2001, 1995, 1976—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Blerta, Revisited and Zealand providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q121675548. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2001, 1995 and 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “Blerta Revisited” 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.