Four strangers, one wild boat ride, and husbands they've barely met.
War Brides is a Canadian television film that centres on four women, three from the United Kingdom and one from Germany, who come to Canada as war brides of Canadian soldiers after the end of World War II.
Acting
The four leads carry entire marriages in their exhausted shoulders.
Production
Shot on an actual ship — claustrophobic authenticity you can smell.
Director
Martin Lavut
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nearly 48,000 real war brides came to Canada post-WWII; this film was one of the only dramatic works to center their experience rather than their husbands'.
Director Martin Lavut deliberately cast Canadian actresses against 'type' — Wendy Crewson's Kate was written English but performed with deliberate Canadian flatness to suggest assimilation already beginning.
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