Home by Christmas
Home by Christmas

Home by Christmas

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2010
1h 33m
3.7(3 votes)
Drama
War

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.

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9 members
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Martin Henderson

Ed Preston

Martin Henderson
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Jed Brophy

Mart Preston

Jed Brophy
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Tony Barry

Ed

Tony Barry
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Nick Blake

Les Harker

Nick Blake
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Byron Coll

Hoppy

Byron Coll
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Peter Hambleton

Sgt Syd Gurton

Peter Hambleton
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Richard Knowles

Vic

Richard Knowles
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Kate McGill

Selina

Kate McGill
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Chelsie Preston Crayford

Tui

Chelsie Preston Crayford

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