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SBS’s queer, revisionist take on Australia during World War II, While The Men Are Away, managed to lure director Elissa Down home to Australia for work for the first time in more than a decade.
Set in the fictional town of Bush, the “wildly historically inaccurate” series follows those left behind during the war, specifically an Italian immigrant (Michela De Rossi) who enlists two Women’s Land Army recruits (Max McKenna and Jana Zvedeniuk) to help run her husband’s farm, alongside her In...