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Home by Christmas(2010)
Status: Released
Date: 2010-04-29
37%
3 Votes
Time: 1h 33m
A film memoir of love, war and secrets
Overview:
A remarkable memoir of resilience, determination and love.Based on filmmaker Gaylene Preston's interviews with her father about his World War II experiences, reconstructed with actor Tony Barry as Ed Preston. Weaving strands of poetic imagined drama, and archival footage into the interview, Preston presents both sides of her parents' wartime marriage: the horror and hardship of battlefield and prison camp juxtaposed with the loneliness and grief of a young wife struggling with a newborn baby and a husband declared missing.Ed Preston, on his way home from rugby practice in 1940, joins the New Zealand Army to go to World War II. His new wife, Tui, is pregnant and distraught, but he tells her not to worry, he'll be home by Christmas. And so he is - four years later - after escaping from a prison camp in Italy. But while Ed is away, Tui has fallen in love with another man.
Languages: English.
Countries:
New Zealand
Movie: Home by Christmas
Top 9 Billed Cast
Martin Henderson
Ed Preston
Jed Brophy
Mart Preston
Tony Barry
Ed
Nick Blake
Les Harker
Byron Coll
Hoppy
Peter Hambleton
Sgt Syd Gurton
Richard Knowles
Vic
Kate McGill
Selina
Chelsie Preston Crayford
Tui
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