About Home by Christmas
- Released on April 29, 2010
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.
Full Cast of Home by Christmas
Martin Henderson plays Ed Preston
Martin Henderson (born October 8, 1974) is a New Zealand actor, well known to American audiences for his starring rol...
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Jed Brophy was born on January 1, 1963 and is currently 61 years old.
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Nick Blake plays Les Harker
Byron Coll plays Hoppy
Peter Hambleton plays Sgt Syd Gurton
Richard Knowles plays Vic
Kate McGill plays Selina
Chelsie Preston Crayford plays Tui
Chelsie Preston Crayford was born on January 1, 1987 and is currently 37 years old.
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