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# A film memoir of love, war and secrets
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.
🌏 Languages Available: English
📆 Date Released: 2010-04-29
⌚ Running Time: 93 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 3.667

Beloved Cast

Martin Henderson original image
Ed Preston
Martin Henderson
Jed Brophy original image
Mart Preston
Jed Brophy
Tony Barry original image
Ed
Tony Barry
Nick Blake original image
Les Harker
Nick Blake
Byron Coll original image
Hoppy
Byron Coll
Peter Hambleton original image
Sgt Syd Gurton
Peter Hambleton
Richard Knowles original image
Vic
Richard Knowles
Kate McGill original image
Selina
Kate McGill
Chelsie Preston Crayford original image
Tui
Chelsie Preston Crayford

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