This series touched the hearts of many Australians when it was released to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the founding of modern Australia. Most people outside Australia do not understand the significance of the Great War to Australians: population 3m; dead 180,000; wounded 250,000; 30% of the men and women who left these shores never returned; and Australians per head of population took more casualties than any other nation but the Irish.
Companion-piece almost to THE ALIEN YEARS, made the same year and released only weeks before.Tushka Bergen is Frieda Kennon, a country girl who in 1916 at the height of WW1, falls in love with German national (now a prisoner in NSW) Franz Muller.
