Home by Christmas

Home by Christmas

2010/04/29 • Released • English

Drama
War
3.7
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.

Director : Gaylene Preston

Casts
Martin Henderson

Martin Henderson

Ed Preston

Jed Brophy

Jed Brophy

Mart Preston

Tony Barry

Tony Barry

Ed

Nick Blake

Nick Blake

Les Harker

Byron Coll

Byron Coll

Hoppy

Peter Hambleton

Peter Hambleton

Sgt Syd Gurton

Richard Knowles

Richard Knowles

Vic

Kate McGill

Kate McGill

Selina

Chelsie Preston Crayford

Chelsie Preston Crayford

Tui

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