Light Years Away (film)
1981 film
- Trevor Howard
- Mick Ford
- Artificial Eye (UK)
- New Yorker Films (US)
Release dates
- 20 May 1981 (1981-05-20) (France)
- 15 April 1983 (1983-04-15) (NYC)
Running time
- France
- Switzerland
Light Years Away (French: Les Années lumière) is a 1981 film directed by Alain Tanner. It tells the story of a young man who meets an old man who says he was taught by birds how to fly and is building a flying machine. It is based on a novel by Daniel Odier.
Although filmed in English and shot in Ireland, it was made by a Swiss director and produced by companies from France and Switzerland. The film won the Grand Prix at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Cast
- Trevor Howard as Yoshka Poliakeff
- Mick Ford as Jonas
- Bernice Stegers as Betty
- Henri Virlojeux as Lawyer
- Gerard Mannix Flynn as Drunken Boy (as Mannix Flynn)
- Don Foley as Cafe Owner
- Gabrielle Keenan as Girl At Village Dance
- John Murphy as Man In Bar
- Jerry O'Brien as Bar Owner
- Joe Pilkington as Thomas
- Louis Samier as Trucker
- Odile Schmitt as Dancer
- Vincent Smith as Cop
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Light Years Away". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-31.
External links
- Light Years Away at IMDb
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Films directed by Alain Tanner
- Nice Time (1957)
- Charles, Dead or Alive (1969)
- The Salamander (1971)
- The Middle of the World (1974)
- Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976)
- Messidor (1979)
- Light Years Away (1981)
- In the White City (1983)
- No Man's Land (1985)
- The Diary of Lady M (1993)
- Fourbi (1996)
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