A place to call home
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | A place to call home |
| Country of production | Australia |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | since 2013 |
| Production company |
Seven Productions Foxtel |
| length | 42-45 minutes |
| Episodes | 57+ in 5+ seasons |
| genre | Historical drama |
| idea | Bevan Lee |
| script | Bevan Lee, Trent Atkinson |
| production | Chris Martin-Jones |
| music | Michael Yezerski |
| camera | John Stokes |
| First broadcast | April 28, 2013 (Australia) on Seven Network |
| occupation | |
A Place to Call Home is an Australian historical drama series broadcast by Seven Network . It has been on the air since April 28, 2013. Bevan Lee created the television series , which is set in rural New South Wales a few years after World War II . It tells the story of the nurse Sarah Adams (Marta Dusseldorp), who after twenty years in Europe, marked by war and terror of the National Socialists , returns to her native Australia and on the journey home to the family of the wealthy landlady and matriarch Elisabeth Bligh (Noni Hazlehurst ) that will change their lives forever. The main cast also includes Brett Climo (George Bligh), Craig Hall (Dr. Jack Duncan) and Tim Draxl (Dr. Henry Fox).
Production was initially discontinued after the second season, but shortly thereafter resumed through new contracts with the pay TV broadcaster Foxtel, which enabled production and broadcasting on its Australian / New Zealand broadcaster SoHo. A new ending was filmed for the second season, which should explain the continuation and the transition to the slightly different format of the third season. From 2016, production and broadcasting were taken over by Showcase. A total of five seasons have been broadcast so far, with a sixth being produced from 2018. The series gained a large and loyal audience both on the international market and in its country of origin. The Australian film critic David Knox described it as a "compelling melodrama about love and loss set against the social change of the 1950s" (a captivating melodrama about love and loss in the midst of social change in the 1950s ).
As announced in March 2018, the sixth and final season will be broadcast for the first time in August of that year.
background
Bevan Lee began developing A Place to Call Home after completing his “Home Trilogy” ( Always Greener , Packed to the Rafters, and Winners & Losers ). The production was inspired by the films by director Douglas Sirk from the 1950s In the Wind written in the wind (1956) and What Heaven Permits (1955). Lee justified his choice of the location in an interview with The Age with the fact that people's lives today are "relatively bland". Ultimately, drama consists of conflict and we live in a society that is quite free from conflict. He had to go to a place where there was pain and toil and suffering; after the war there was plenty of it. The script was written by Lee and Trent Atkinson.
A Place to Call Home is set in both the fictional Ash Park estate and the small town of Inverness, both in the Australian state of New South Wales . Camden and the Southern Highlands in southern New South Wales are the backdrop to Inverness. The Ash Park property is actually called Camelot and is a listed property near Kirkham, a suburb of Sydney just outside Camden.
Filming for the first season began on July 9, 2012 and continued until December 12 of the same year. The 13 episodes were shot - for the first time in an Australian television production - with a Sony F65 camera. The pilot episode aired on April 28, 2013 at prime time (8:30 p.m.) (this slot was previously used for the British historical drama series Downton Abbey ).
In June 2013, Erin McWhirter ( TV Week ) announced the extension of the series for another season. Abby Earl (Anna Bligh) commented that preparations started in August and that shooting will start in September of that year. The first broadcast of the second season finally took place from May 11 to July 13, 2014.
TV Week confirmed in May 2014 that another season had been commissioned. A month later, however, the magazine reported a U-turn on the part of Channel 7 Australia: performers and employees had been rejected by the broadcaster.
On October 15, 2014, a contract between Foxtel and Channel 7 Australia was finally made public, from which it emerges that a third season under the leadership of Bevan Lee should be produced by Seven Productions, but broadcast on Foxtel. On October 25, 2014, the Australian version of The Daily Telegraph announced the renewal of A Place to Call Home for an additional two seasons, which would air on Foxtel, SoHo, beginning in late 2015. In addition, a return of the previous employees and actors was confirmed.
On the official Facebook page of the series on August 16, 2015, the first broadcast of the third season on Foxtel was announced from September 27, 2015 at prime time (8:30 p.m.).
The series is by Chris Martin-Jones produced . Executive Producers are John Holmes, Julie McGauran and Penny Win.
reception
Reviews
TVtonight's David Know quotes and confirms in his review the series creator, Bevan Lee, who describes the series as "an overwhelming melodrama about love and loss in the turmoil of social change of the 1950s".
In the Guardian, Rebecca Starford reviewed consistently positive and wrote under the title " A Place to Call Home is Australian television to be proud of" (A Place to Call Home is Australian television that one can be proud of ): " A Place to Call Home permeates with real dexterity the things that are powerfully reflected in our national consciousness - the longing for the past and the longing for home - and that is what makes great television. ”( A Place to Call Home actually explores with real sophistication the stuff that resonates powerfully in our national consciousness - a longing for the past, and a longing for home - and that makes for great television ).
Awards
| year | category | Nominee | Episode (s) | Result | Ref |
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| 2014 | Most Outstanding Drama Series | A place to call home | season 1 | nominated | |
| Most Popular Actress | Marta Dusseldorp | nominated | |||
| Most Popular New Talent | Abby Earl | nominated | |||
| 2016 | Best Actress | Marta Dusseldorp | season 3 | nominated | |
| Most Outstanding Supporting Actor | David Berry | nominated | |||
| Most Outstanding Supporting Actress | Jenni Baird | nominated | |||
| Best Drama Program | A place to call home | nominated | |||
| Most Outstanding Drama Series | A place to call home | nominated | |||
| 2017 | Best Actress | Marta Dusseldorp | Season 4 | nominated | |
| Most Outstanding Supporting Actress | Jenni Baird | nominated | |||
| Most Outstanding Drama Series | A place to call home | won |
- Australian Cinematographers Society Awards
| year | category | Nominee | Episode (s) | Result | Ref |
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| 2014 | Telefeatures, TV Drama & Mini Series Award of Distinction | John Stokes | Season 1, episode 9: "Cane Toad" ( Aga ) | won |
- Equity Ensemble Awards
| year | category | Nominee | Episode (s) | Result | Ref |
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| 2014 | Most Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | occupation | season 1 | nominated |
Audience numbers
| Season | Episode count | First broadcast | Audience numbers (OzTAM; → en ) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season premiere | Season finale | Channel | Maximum | Average | rank | ||
| 1 | 13 | April 28, 2013 | July 21, 2013 | Seven Network | 1,930,000 | 1,480,000 | 8th |
| 2 | 10 | May 11, 2014 | July 13, 2014 | 1,302,000 | 1,162,000 | 7th | |
| 3 | 10 | September 27, 2015 | November 29, 2015 | Soho | 168,000 | 2 | |
| 4th | 12 | 11th September 2016 | November 27, 2016 | Showcase | 139,000 | 2 | |
| 5 | 12 | October 8, 2017 | December 24, 2017 | 104,000 | 3 | ||
| 6th | 10 | 19th August 2018 | |||||
Radiance - worldwide
Shortly after it was first broadcast in Australia, “A Place to Call Home” was also recorded by New Zealand broadcaster TV One and ran there during prime time (8.30pm) on Sunday evening. The season finale of the second season was broadcast on October 26, 2014. Later episodes were, e. Partly for reasons of youth release, postponed to 9.40 p.m. All other seasons were also broadcast by TVNZ One, most recently the fourth season on Fridays and again during prime time.
The Danish broadcaster DR1 broadcast the first season from March 2014 under the series name "En Ny Begyndelse" - "A New Beginning".
The public broadcaster in Finland , Yle TV1 , shows the series under the title “Kotiin takaisin” in German about “Back home”. In Finland, the series achieved impressive ratings of over a million viewers, which is twenty percent of the population.
The first season was also shown in the UK on November 17, 2014 by BBC2 . The second season followed immediately afterwards, the third from February 25, 2016 and the fourth from February 13, 2017.
Israel broadcasts the program on their YesDrama program under the title "מקום בלב", which can be translated as "A place in the heart".
In the Netherlands , the first season was broadcast by the MAX broadcaster on the second public service program NPO2 from June 2015, and the second season followed in July 2015.
All five seasons that have appeared so far are available in the USA via the streaming broadcaster Acorn TV. American Public Television also secured the television broadcast rights.
In Croatia , HRT 1 shows the series as “Mjesto koje zovem dom” (“A place I call home”).
A German-language synchronization is not yet available. The versions broadcast in Europe and the European DVDs and Blu-Rays may be available in Germany. U. received or bought and played.
marketing
The Australian (region 4; original) and British first releases (region 2; can be purchased and played across Europe) are listed. Blu-rays from Oceania, like Blu-rays from Europe, are given the regional code 2 / B, which is why the first and second series of Blu-rays, which were only released in Australia, can also be played in German-speaking countries, but are more difficult to obtain.
| title | Details | DVD first release | Blu-ray first release | Bonus material | |
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| A Place to Call Home - Season (AUS / USA) or Series (UK) 1 |
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February 23, 2015 | August 8, 2013 |
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| A Place to Call Home - Season / Series 2 |
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February 23, 2015 | 17th July 2014 |
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| A Place to Call Home - Season / Series 2: Revised Edition |
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- | October 29, 2015 | - |
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| A Place to Call Home - Season / Series 2: Collector's Edition |
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| A Place to Call Home - Season / Series 3 |
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March 14, 2016 | April 7, 2016 | - |
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| A Place to Call Home - Season / Series 4 |
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March 6, 2017 | April 26, 2017 | - |
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| A Place to Call Home - Season / Series 5 |
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2nd April 2018 | March 28, 2018 | - |
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- Box sets
| title | Details | DVD first release | Bonus material | |
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| Region 2 | Region 4 | |||
| A Place to Call Home - Season / Series 1 & 2 |
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- | October 29, 2015 |
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| A Place to Call Home - Complete Seasons / Series One to Three |
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March 14, 2016 | September 1, 2016 |
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| A Place to Call Home - Complete Seasons / Series 1–4 |
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March 6, 2017 | April 26, 2017 |
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| A Place to Call Home: Complete Seasons / Series One to Five |
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2nd April 2018 | March 28, 2018 |
Region 4 :
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occupation
| actor | role | Seasons | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | |||
| Marta Dusseldorp | Sarah Adams / Sarah Nordmann | Main role | |||||
| Noni Hazlehurst | Elizabeth Bligh / Elizabeth Goddard | Main role | |||||
| Brett Climo | George Bligh | Main role | |||||
| Craig Hall | Dr. Jack Duncan | Main role | |||||
| Abby Earl | Anna Bligh / Anna Poletti | Main role | |||||
| Frankie J. Holden | Roy Briggs | Main role | |||||
| Sara Wiseman | Carolyn Bligh / Carolyn Duncan | Supporting role | Main role | ||||
| Jenni Baird | Regina Standish / Regina Bligh | Supporting role | Main role | ||||
| Tim Draxl | Dr. Henry Fox | Main role | |||||
| Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood | Olivia Bligh | Main role | Supporting role | ||||
| David Berry | James Bligh | Main role | Guest appearances | ||||
| ? Xavier Druery |
Georgie Bligh (0-1 years) Georgie Bligh (5 years) |
Supporting role - |
- Guest appearances |
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| Mark Lee | Sir Richard Bennett | Supporting role | |||||
| Robert Coleby | Douglas Goddard | Supporting role | |||||
| Conrad Coleby | Matthew Goddard | Guest appearance | |||||
| Martin Sacks | Isaac Gold | Guest appearance | Supporting role | ||||
| Avital Greenberg-Teplitsky / Madeleine Clunies-Ross |
Leah Gold | Guest appearance - |
- Supporting role |
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| Elliot Domoney | David Bligh (4 yrs) | Supporting role | |||||
| Aaron Pedersen | Frank Gibbs | Supporting role | |||||
| George Pullar | Larry Gray | Supporting role | |||||
| Matt Day | Ed Jarvis | Supporting role | |||||
| Clodagh Crowe | Dawn Briggs | Supporting role | |||||
| Heather Mitchell | Prudence Swanson | Supporting role | Guest appearance | ||||
| Russell Queay / Michael Yore |
William Brackley | Guest appearance - |
- Guest appearance |
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| Aldo Mignone | Gino Poletti | Main role | |||||
| Ben Winspear | Dr. René Nordmann | Supporting role | Main role | ||||
| Matt Levett | Andrew Swanson | Supporting role | Main role | ||||
| Brenna Harding | Rose O'Connell | Supporting role | Main role | ||||
| Dominic Allburn | Harry Polson | Main role | Supporting role | ||||
| Krew Boylan | Amy Polson | Supporting role | |||||
| Amy Matthews | Supporting role | ||||||
| Judi Farr | Peg Maloney | Supporting role | |||||
| Dina Panozzo | Carla Poletti | Supporting role | |||||
| Angelo D'Angelo | Amo Poletti | Supporting role | |||||
| Jacinta Acevski | Alma Gray | Supporting role | |||||
| Scott Grimley | Norman Parker | Supporting role | |||||
| Erica Lovell | Eve Walker | Supporting role | Guest appearance | ||||
| Rick Donald | Lloyd Ellis-Parker | Supporting role | Guest appearance | ||||
| Michael Sheasby | Bert Ford | Supporting role | Guest appearance | ||||
main characters
- Sarah Adams
Sarah (first name Bridget) Adams (Marta Dusseldorp) grew up with a strictly religious mother in Sydney. As a young woman she moved to Europe, became a nurse and met and fell in love with the French doctor René Nordmann during her service in the Spanish Civil War. Through him she gained access to the Spanish and French art scene and met Federico García Lorca as a close friend of René. After the war, the couple moved to Paris and got married. Bridget adopted the Jewish faith and the associated new name Sarah for her husband. With the invasion of the National Socialists, the couple joined the Paris Resistance . Both were arrested and taken to various concentration camps, René died (supposedly) in Dachau , Sarah just barely survived Ravensbrück . Eight years after the end of the Second World War, her last remaining brother falls overseas and Sarah makes her way home to Australia to help her mother, who cannot forgive or even accept her exit from the Catholic Church even on her deathbed. Sarah then accepts George Bligh's invitation to Inverness and successfully applies for the vacant position as a nurse in Dr. Jack Duncan's Small Rural Hospital. Her life quickly becomes more and more intertwined with that of the Bligh family and other villagers, especially with the eccentric hermit Roy Briggs, she becomes a close friend. Roy takes them in his little house, their relationship is family, simple and open from the beginning, they support each other as best they can. The widower lost both sons in the war and is now finding a kind of adopted daughter in Sarah. Sarah's new life, together with her burgeoning love for George Bligh, is completely upset when the scheming and jealous Regina learns from Nazi files that, contrary to several eyewitness reports, René survived the concentration camp badly injured. She brings him to Australia, but after a few months and a dangerous operation he succumbs to his brain injuries. Sarah gives birth to a child whose paternity has not been clearly established due to the turbulent events and the sudden return of René.
- Elizabeth Bligh
Elizabeth Bligh (Noni Hazlehurst) is the influential matriarch of Ash Park, the ancient estate of the Bligh family. The headstrong and indomitable head of the family tries by all means to keep the family together and at the same time to preserve the good name and to maintain the class boundaries of their time. She feels grateful for Sarah because she successfully dissuaded her grandson James from his suicide attempt, at the same time the knowledge of a witness scares her and so she tries with all her might to keep Sarah away from her family and her village. As a result, distrust grows on all sides and finally brings Sarah to break the promised silence and tell George about the incident. Events roll over and Elizabeth only blames Sarah for it. She brings in the sister of her deceased daughter-in-law, Regina, who is rummaging through Nazi files in Europe - looking for a hidden secret that could force Sarah to leave. When Regina finds out what happened to Sarah in Ravensbrück and René in Dachau, she reveals all her cruelty and intrigue. She wins over her brother-in-law George through manipulation and settles in Ash Park. Elizabeth realizes that through her own network of intrigues she is now in danger of losing everything that is really important to her and slowly approaches Sarah and her daughter Carolyn, who have lived a very modern and cosmopolitan life in Sydney that was previously unbearable for Elizabeth in the artist scene. The three women join forces against Regina, who is becoming more and more powerful and ruthless. At the same time, Elizabeth realizes what freedom and possible love she has given up in the course of her life for the illusion of family cohesion and a good name . She turns her back on Ash Park, moves to Carolyn in Sydney and meets the loving benefactor Douglas Goddard, who maintains a meeting place for traumatized war veterans. She supports him as a donor, cook and pianist, falls in love with him and finally marries him. Another friend in Sydney is Prudence Swanson ( Heather Mitchell ), a conceited member of the Sydney upper class whose husband is a high-ranking politician and who repeatedly tries to persuade George to pursue a political career. The friendship of the two women seldom seems like a soulmate, but rather like the conventional get-together of two people of the same rank and otherwise very different. Elizabeth's health has been badly damaged for several years, she has a weak heart and has suffered several heart attacks. Your protégé Dr. Jack Duncan ( Craig Hall ) takes care of them, later Dr. Henry Fox ( Tim Draxl ) kept an eye on her treatment.
- George Bligh
George Bligh ( Brett Climo ) is Elizabeth's son and the brother of Carolyn. He and his wife, Elaine, raised two children, James and Anna. As the series progresses, it turns out that Anna is actually the illegitimate daughter of his sister Carolyn and his friend and doctor Jack Duncan. Under pressure from her mother, Carolyn traveled to Europe with her sister-in-law, and on their return they passed the child off as Elaines. George and his wife loved her like their own, but twenty years later the truth finally emerges, with almost exclusively positive and relieving consequences for everyone involved. The kind-hearted George repeatedly protects Sarah from his mother and curious, jealous, and suspicious villagers. After Elaine was killed during the Japanese air raids on Darwin, he falls in love with Sarah for the first time; she returns his love, much to his mother's displeasure. When his sister-in-law Regina discovers that René is still alive, he gives up Sarah, but at least wants to be part of the life of their unborn child from the outside and make a financial contribution. Regina's appearance is very similar to her older sister Elaine, with her manipulative nature she can soon wrap the gullible George around her finger to the horror of the other family members and friends. When René dies, however, and Regina's facade slowly crumbles, George again hopes for a future together with Sarah. George tends to be overconfident, which is why he is sometimes taken advantage of by his fellow men. Regina is just one of many examples. When his son attempts suicide, he reacts shocked but understanding and loving. However, he did not cope well with the coming out that followed. He has a violent outburst of anger that leads to a nervous breakdown and the admission of James to a mental institution, where he is to be "cured" of his homosexuality with brutal torture methods until Sarah is rescued. In the meantime, George's tough side also shows towards James's wife Olivia, for example when he naturally insists that their child must remain in Ash Park after the two separated. It later emerges that the reaction to his son's sexuality, which is completely atypical for his character, could be related to an event in his early youth, when he surprised his father during intercourse with a clerk in the stables, whereupon his father took his own life.
- Jack Duncan
Dr. Jack Duncan ( Craig Hall ) has been closely associated with the Bligh family from a very early age, for whom he works as a general practitioner in addition to his work as director of the small hospital in Inverness. Elizabeth Bligh, who, as a young woman, had a secret love affair with Jack's father until the end of her life and who had given up the class boundaries, took on the young Jack after the death of his father and financed him school education and later the longed-for medical studies. As a college student, Jack fell in love with Elizabeth's daughter Carolyn and made her pregnant. Elizabeth does not find out until twenty years later that he was the mysterious father of the child who was raised by Elaine and George on her orders. Jack also learns the reason for Carolyn's sudden break in contact and their daughter only after twenty years. As the family doctor, he has known Anna all her life, but the new discovery that she is really his daughter means immeasurable happiness for Jack. During World War II, Japanese soldiers brutally tortured the military doctor, causing him to become sterile. As a result, he had given up hope of having children and family happiness. With the gradual uncovering of the Bligh secrets, Carolyn and Jack get closer again and their love flares up again. The self-sacrificing and honest Jack is ready for anything when it comes to helping those in need. For this, he sometimes risks his admission and even his freedom. He is ahead of his time in many ways and as such fits his modern and independent wife well. [Trivia: The two actors have been married since the early 1990s.]
- James Bligh
James Bligh (David Berry) is the only biological son of George and Elaine Bligh. He grew up side by side with his cousin and supposed sister Anna. He moved to England to study, where he fell in love with his fellow student and roommate William. When his grandmother recognized the signs and correctly interpreted them during a short visit, he married Olivia, Williams' younger sister, at her pressure. The prospect of a life in his now self-built prison drives him to a desperate suicide attempt, but he is saved in time by Sarah. Olivia eventually draws the right conclusions on her own, but decides to keep the marriage vows for the time being, mainly because of the common unborn child. However, when his father learns of his sexual orientation, he freaks out and James has a nervous breakdown. He had previously met his first sweetheart Harry Polson in Inverness (a former employee of the Blighs, his sister Amy still works as a housemaid in Ash Park), who is much more honest with his homosexuality, which confuses James. He is admitted to a clinic in Sydney, where he is promised a cure from homosexuality with electroshock therapy and other brutal methods. Only Sarah can free the already severely traumatized James from the closed institution. Olivia takes loving care of him but continues to suffer from the lack of reciprocation. When James fully recovered and their child was born, she finally got involved in an affair with the English artist Lloyd Ellis-Parker, which triggered a wave of jealousy in James, although he had an affair with the young doctor almost at the same time Henry Ford ( Tim Draxl ) had started. Lloyd eventually leaves Olivia and returns to England, but the relationship between Henry and James becomes more and more binding. The two now also receive encouragement from Elizabeth, who has now realized that she cannot undo her own unhappy marriage by standing in the way of her grandson's happiness. The first difficulties appear when Harry reappears and old wounds open on James.
- Anna Bligh
Anna Bligh (Abby Earl) is the secret illegitimate child of Carolyn Bligh and Jack Duncan. For twenty years she was raised believing that she was the daughter of George and Elaine and the sister of James. She always had a very close relationship with Carolyn as her supposed godmother. Jack also values her, but only knew him as a doctor and good friend of the family. Against all odds, Anna marries the farm boy Gino Poletti, the son of Italian immigrants and who has been friends with Anna since childhood. Gino tries to realize his dream of a high-quality vineyard when she is encouraged, but he goes into debt more and more and the vines die, which puts the marriage to a severe test. Gino is also hoping for more help from Anna with the field work, but had also promised her to support her with the publication of her novel. When he realizes the autobiographical traits of the novel, he realizes how unhappy Anna has become in their marriage. As a happy, open person, Anna helps Sarah and Olivia feel increasingly at home in Inverness. She also supports the looming love affair between Sarah and her father as much as possible. As with Carolyn, her sophistication and rebellious modernity sometimes lead to naive overconfidence and bitter disappointment when her mindset encounters backward-looking people like her class-bound grandmother or the deeply misogynistic publisher Richard Bennett.
- Henry Fox
Dr. Henry Fox ( Tim Draxl ) is a young doctor from Sydney. He first comes into contact with the Bligh family when George is shot and Henry saves his life. Later, after another heart attack, Elizabeth spends a considerable amount of time in Henry's care. Henry becomes friends with James, and over time they realize that their mutual affection goes far beyond friendship. They get involved in a love affair, but Henry is soon blackmailed by Regina, who is now addicted, to regularly supply her with morphine in return for her silence. Within the family, the relationship between the two is soon an open secret, and Elizabeth, Sarah, Carolyn and Anna give them loving encouragement and support. In the big city, Henry takes part in a lively gay scene. For James, who does not feel comfortable there, he is ready to give up his home there and takes a job at Jack's small hospital in Inverness.
- Regina Standish
Regina Standish (Jenni Baird) is the widowed, formerly wealthy and still money-hungry younger sister of George's late wife Elaine. Except for their appearance, however, there are hardly any similarities between the women: Regina's behavior is cold, bitter and calculating, she detests Jews and expresses this aversion especially towards Sarah in public. The pathological jealousy that was directed against her sister from youth on, she now harbors against George's new great love Sarah. Targeting George's affection and his fortune in equal parts, she uses extreme means to get Sarah, Elizabeth and other adversaries out of the way and to win George over. An attempted murder fails, another woman dies and Regina sinks deeper and deeper into her addiction to morphine. In order to secure a permanent supply of the narcotic, she blackmailed Henry with his homosexuality and the secret love affair with her nephew James. After Sarah's attempted murder had already failed, she uses the grieving fiancé of the slain teacher as a bounty hunter on Sarah's young son. At the same time she tries to turn the head of a policeman and get him to finally get Sarah out of the way. Her double game is exposed, at a remote meeting point she shoots the police officer with his weapon. When George Regina's threats to Elizabeth finally overhear and can no longer turn a blind eye to Regina's atrocities, he has her admitted to the closed psychiatric ward. Because of insanity, however, she receives mitigation and is not prosecuted for the murder (attempts). Sir Richard finally arranges for her early release from psychiatric hospital.
- Doris Collins
Doris Collins (Deborah Kennedy) is the famous gossip from Inverness. Always on her bike through the small commune, she seems to have her eyes and ears everywhere. She is a kind hearted woman, but her curious and direct manner often comes across as impolite and intrusive. Sarah and Doris do not have a good relationship at first, but over time Sarah learns to appreciate her as a caring confidante.
- Peg Maloney
Margaret "Peg" Maloney ( Judi Farr ) is Sarah's godmother. She took care of Sarah's mother until her death and is always ready to listen to her niece. In contrast to her sister, “Aunty Peg” ( Aunty Peg ) never resented her niece's happiness in love and the conversion to Judaism and always maintained contact. Even after Sarah's arrival in Inverness, they write and visit each other regularly. When Sarah asks for Peg's help with a difficult and dangerous decision, her aunt is there.
- René Nordmann
Dr. René Nordmann (Ben Winspear) was a French Jew who, as a doctor, cared for the victims of the Spanish civil war, among other things. He was at home in the art scene, particularly in Barcelona and Paris, and one of his closest friends was Federico García Lorca . Sarah always carries a volume of poetry by Lorca with her, the favorite poem of her husband contained therein always reminded him of his friend who was murdered in 1936, Sarah now reminds of René. The couple met during the Spanish Civil War and later moved to Paris together, where they joined the Resistance and were arrested by the National Socialists. At first, Sarah's first great love, believed to be dead, appears exclusively in flashbacks, until Regina discovers that, contrary to several eyewitness reports, he survived the Dachau concentration camp . Sarah brings her husband from Paris to Inverness and takes care of him devotedly. Unfortunately, Inverness will not be a new home for René. Sensing his wife's suppressed affection for George Bligh, he is unable to overcome the trauma of imprisonment and torture. In order to remove the life-threatening spherical splinters from his brain, he decides against Sarah's request to undergo a highly dangerous operation, the consequences of which he ultimately dies.
- Richard Bennett
Sir Richard Bennett ( Mark Lee ) is an influential publisher and editor of a major city gazette. He holds many strings in Sydney's hands through bribery and blackmail. He repeatedly tries to persuade George Bligh to pursue a political career. In the meantime he allies himself with Regina, who helps him to increase his political power. In return, he gets George into a marriage of convenience with her. The man who is greedy for money and power does not allow himself to be put in his place by anyone; he is used to getting everything he wants, be it money, possessions or people. Both Carolyn and Anna now work for him. He shamelessly exploits both women, and in the case of Carolyn, her apartment is raped. Sir Richard is Regina's only regular visitor to the mental hospital. He ensures that his “long-term investment” receives a progressive and good-natured psychiatrist who, after a year and a marked improvement in her state of mind, agrees to her early discharge. At the exit of the closed clinic, Sir Richard receives her personally, gets her a hotel room and new clothes and wants to pick up where the scheming couple had left off before Regina's admission. When Regina flees from him, he demolishes the hotel room in his rage, but holds onto her until she finally gets in touch with him.
Web links
- A Place to Call Home in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Series info on the official Foxtel website
- Series info on the official website of Yahoo7
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Elissa Blake: A Marta for her cause . In: The Age . Fairfax Media . April 21, 2013. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ^ David Knox: More cast for A Place to Call Home . TV Tonight. July 8, 2012. Archived from the original on June 6, 2013. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
- ↑ a b David Knox: A Place to Call Home to end with 6th season . TV Tonight. March 19, 2018. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
- ^ David Knox: A Place to Call Home Drama Launch . TV Tonight. April 18, 2013. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
- ^ Graeme Blundell: Home truths revealed in Bevan Lee's new family drama . In: The Australian . News Limited ( News Corporation ). April 20, 2013. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ^ A b Peter Craven: Dressed with vintage appeal . In: The Age . Fairfax Media. April 18, 2013. Retrieved May 3, 2013.
- ^ David Knox: A Place to Call Home . TV Tonight. April 25, 2013. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
- ↑ Alicia B: New Seven Show - A Place to Call Home , Throng.com.au. June 10, 2012. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ↑ Jonathan Chancellor: Camelot at Camden is captivating as A Place to Call Home location on Channel 7's new 1950s drama series . In: Property Observer , Private Media Pty Ltd, April 28, 2013. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ↑ Nick Leys: Seven has high hopes for Bevan Lee's A Place To Call Home . In: The Australian . News Limited (News Corporation). April 17, 2013. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ^ A Place to Call Home production details . Inside film. December 4, 2012. Archived from the original on May 15, 2013. Retrieved on November 12, 2015.
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- ↑ Programmers' APT Marketplace choices include Aussie romantic drama and MST3K . Archived from the original on August 24, 2016.
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↑ UK DVD releases:
- A Place to Call Home Series One (DVD) . Retrieved February 22, 2016.
- A Place to Call Home Series Two (DVD) . Retrieved February 22, 2016.
- A Place to Call Home Series 3 (DVD) . Retrieved February 22, 2016.
- A Place to Call Home Series 4 (DVD) . Retrieved April 20, 2017.
- A Place to Call Home Series Five (DVD) . Retrieved July 19, 2018.
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↑ Australian DVD releases:
- Place To Call Home, A - Season 1 . JB Hi-Fi . Archived from the original on July 23, 2013. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
- A Place To Call Home; S2 . Sanity. Archived from the original on May 6, 2014. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
- A Place To Call Home - Season 2 - Revised Edition . Sanity. Archived from the original on December 24, 2015. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
- A Place To Call Home - Season 2 | Collector's Disc - New Final Episode . Sanity. Archived from the original on September 28, 2015. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
- Place To Call Home, A - Season 3 . JB Hi-Fi. Archived from the original on March 2, 2016. Retrieved on February 22, 2016.
- Place To Call Home, A - Season 4 . JB Hi-Fi. Archived from the original on April 21, 2017. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
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↑ Australian Blu-ray Releases:
- Place To Call Home, A - Season 1 . JB Hi-Fi. Archived from the original on July 20, 2013. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
- A Place To Call Home; S2 . Sanity. Archived from the original on May 6, 2014. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
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↑ British box set releases:
- A Place to Call Home - Series 1–3 Complete (DVD) . Retrieved February 22, 2016.
- A Place to Call Home - Series 1-4 (DVD) . Retrieved April 20, 2017.
- A Place to Call Home - Complete Series 1-5 (DVD) . Retrieved July 19, 2018.
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↑ Australian box set releases:
- A Place To Call Home - Season 1–2 . Sanity. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
- Place To Call Home, A - Season 1–3 . JB Hi-Fi. Archived from the original on April 21, 2017. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
- Place To Call Home, A - Season 1–4 . JB Hi-Fi. Archived from the original on April 21, 2017. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
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- ^ Australian Associated Press: Husband and wife resume on-screen affair In: Daily Mail, September 21, 2015. Retrieved March 13, 2018.