Changi (2001)
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One of the most expensive miniseres ever assembled for Australian television, Changi covered a time-span of nearly 60 years. The story was told in flashback as a group of six former POWs, arranging a reunion, recalled their experiences in a Singapore prison camp. Though all six suffered mightily at… More One of the most expensive miniseres ever assembled for Australian television, Changi covered a time-span of nearly 60 years. The story was told in flashback as a group of six former POWs, arranging a reunion, recalled their experiences in a Singapore prison camp. Though all six suffered mightily at the hands of their Japanese captors, all managed to survive the ordeal and remain friends even after cessation of hostilities. Still, each man had retained a deleterious "side effect" from his imprisonment, which threatened to cast a tragic pall on their reunion. Running an exhaustive gamut from comedy to horror, Changi sustained its believability by having each of the main characters played by two actors -- one young for the WWII scenes, one old for the postwar scenes. Though critics and the general public were impressed when the series first aired on Australia's ABC network from October 14 to November 12, 2001, there were a number of real-life prison camp survivors who condemned the project as unrealistic and offensive (and never mind that at least one of the lead actors on the show had himself weathered six years in a Japanese stockade). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Kate Woods
- Genres
- Drama, Television
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Cast
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Slim de Grey
as Curley Foster (old)
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Desmond Kelly (II)
as Tom (old)
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Bill Kerr
as Eddie (old)
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Jill Perryman
as Kate (old)
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Charles 'Bud' Tingwell
as David Collins (old)
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Frank Wilson
as Gordon Yates (old)
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Stephen Curry
as Eddie (young)
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Nicholas Hope
as Guillaume Koper
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Terry Norris
as Bill Dwyer (old)
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Matthew Whittet
as Tom (young)
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Marie Armstrong
as Vi (old)
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Mary Docker
as Kate (young)
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Leon Ford
as Bill Dwyer (young)
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Shingo Misawa
as Col. Nakamure
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Geoff Morrell
as Rowdy Lawson
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Rebecca Murphy
as Vi (young)
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Mark Priestley
as Curley Foster (young)
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Ken Senga
as Gen Tanaka
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Gotaro Tusunashima
as Lt. Aso
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Anthony Hayes
as Gordon Yates (young)
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Matthew Newton
as David Collins (young)
- Slim DeGrey
