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This
remarkable documentary manages to compel almost exclusively
via the spoken word as seven elderly women offer candid
yet articulate and boldy frank recollections of their
wartime experience. A rare blend of entertainment and
education destined to earn its place as something of
a national treasure.
Ten
years after its first successful cinema release, and
in time for the 60th anniversary of the end of
World War II, Gaylene Preston1s War Stories Our Mothers
Never Told Us is now on DVD.
The DVD extras contain
an additional story from Doreen Blumhardt, a well
known New Zealand educationalist and potter, who1s story
of
the local German experience in New Zealand during the
War has much to say to a modern audience about racial
prejudice and intolerance. Also included is a featurette
on the seven women in the film and their trip to Hollywood
for the US cinema release as well as a director1s commentary
with Gaylene Preston and Interviewer Judith Fyfe.
To
order a copy please go to:
www.arklesentertainment.com/warstories
Toronto International Film Festival
7-16 September 1995
Contemporary World Cinema 175
"It's
always a pleasure to find a documentary that is gorgeosly lit and shot in 35mm"
ILLUSIONS MAGAZINE Winter 1996
by Laurence Simmons
GUARDIANS
OF AN ABSENT MEANING
LOS ANGELES TIMES, 7th June 1996
by Kevin Thomas
"Gaylene
Preston takes a simple idea and turns it into a rich,
universal experience"
WAR STORIES DVD RELEASE
By Helen Martin, WIFT
2005 DVD release - War Stories: Our Mothers Never Told
Us
By Helen Martin
Pamela Quill
Flo Small
Tui Preston
Jean Andrews
Rita Graham
Neva Clarke McKenna
Mabel Waititi
Cinematographer - Alun Bollinger
Editor - Paul Sutorius
Music - composed and arranged by Jonathan Besser
Interviewed by - Judith Fyfe
Executive Producer - Robin Laing
Produced and Directed - by Gaylene Preston
Produced in Association with - The New Zealand Film
Commission, New Zealand on Air
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