Home by Christmas

Home by Christmas

3.7

2010-04-29

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.

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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.

Released

2010-04-29

Runtime

93

Director

Gaylene Preston

Budget

$0

Revenue

$0

Genres

Drama

War

Language

English

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    Martin Henderson

    Martin Henderson
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    Jed Brophy

    Jed Brophy
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    Tony Barry

    Tony Barry
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    Nick Blake

    Nick Blake
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    Byron Coll

    Byron Coll
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    Peter Hambleton

    Peter Hambleton
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    Richard Knowles

    Richard Knowles
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    Kate McGill

    Kate McGill
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    Chelsie Preston Crayford

    Chelsie Preston Crayford