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			The Man Who Lost His Head “The Man Who Lost His Head” is a Greenlit Rights co-production with New Zealand based South Pacific Pictures.  This television film stars Martin Clunes as a straight-laced museum curator whose life is turned upside down when he has to travel to the wild west coast of New Zealand to negotiate with a dysfunctional but passionate Maori community who have applied for the repatriation of a carved Chief’s head. “The Man Who Lost his Head” was first transmitted in both the UK on ITV1 and in New Zealand on TV One in August 2007. Synopsis Strait-laced Museum Curator Ian Jones is about to marry his boss’s daughter, Fiona. Preparations are underway and Fiona is already drawing up seating plans.  So when a repatriation claim comes into the museum for a Maori carving to be returned to a remote corner of New Zealand, Ian isn’t keen to be given the job, particularly when he understands what a delicate case it is. The Ministry has told the museum to be sympathetic to the claim, and while the museum director has agreed to do this, he has no intention of letting the piece go back. Such a job needs an experienced pair of hands. The promotion that Ian has long worked for is dangled before him as reward, and he knows he can’t say no. Meanwhile, out in New Zealand a very determined Maori community is waiting for him. The carving in question is of an old Maori chief’s son who went over to England in 1860 to buy arms. But the son was seduced and kept by a lady aristocrat and never allowed to return. In desperation, he carved a head of his own likeness and sent it back to watch over his father’s people, but it was lost on the way. Since then, it’s as if this remote Maori community has been cursed, and having at last traced the head to the museum in England, the people are intent on getting it back in place on their marae – the village sacred house - where it belongs. Only then will their luck return. “The Man Who Lost His Head” the story of a very pale fish, getting very much out of his depth as it follows Bennet from the dusty back-rooms of the British Imperial Museum to a small Kiwi town for whom the return of the likeness of Takataka is the single biggest event since the real thing left almost 200 years ago. What The Papers Said “This is a truly funny drama, featuring an excellent cast, fabulous locations and a storyline that doesn’t peter out halfway through.” The Mail on Sunday “Handsomely directed by Terry Johnson, this is a gentle but not insipid fare with enjoyable comedy derived from clever writing and a fine cast that obviously enjoyed every minute.” The Observer Distribution “The Man Who Lost His Head” is being sold throughout the world by All3Media International.