Home by Christmas (2010)
1h 33m
Running Time
April 29, 2010Release Date
Home by Christmas (2010)
1h 33m
Running Time
April 29, 2010Release Date

Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.

Martin Henderson
Ed Preston

Jed Brophy
Mart Preston

Tony Barry
Ed

Nick Blake
Les Harker

Byron Coll
Hoppy

Tai Berdinner-Blades
Tui's Sister - Ida

Peter Hambleton
Sgt Syd Gurton

Rowan Bettjeman
Lofty
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