Light Years Away

Light Years Away
Directed by	Alain Tanner
Written by	Alain Tanner
Starring	Trevor Howard Mick Ford
Distributed by	Artificial Eye (UK) New Yorker Films (USA)
Release dates	20 May 1981 (France) 15 April 1983 (NYC)
Running time	105 mins
Country	France Switzerland
Language	English

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 Prize at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

Cast

Trevor Howard - Yoshka Poliakeff
Mick Ford - Jonas
Bernice Stegers - Betty
Henri Virlojeux - Lawyer
Gerard Mannix Flynn - Drunken boy (as Mannix Flynn)
Don Foley - Cafe owner
Gabrielle Keenan - Girl at village dance
John Murphy - Man in bar
Jerry O'Brien - Bar owner
Joe Pilkington - Thomas
Louis Samier - Trucker
Odile Schmitt - Dancer
Vincent Smith - Cop

References

↑ "Festival de Cannes: Light Years Away". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-31.

External links

Light Years Away at the Internet Movie Database

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)

Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix

1967–1989	Accident (1967) I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967) Ådalen 31 (1969) Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) Johnny Got His Gun (1971) Taking Off (1971) Solaris (1972) The Mother and the Whore (1973) Fantastic Planet (1973) Arabian Nights (1974) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1975) Cría Cuervos (1976) The Marquise of O (1976) Bye Bye Monkey (1978) The Shout (1978) Siberiade (1979) Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980) Light Years Away (1981) The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982) Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) Diary for My Children (1984) Birdy (1985) The Sacrifice (1986) Repentance (1987) A World Apart (1988) Cinema Paradiso (1989) Too Beautiful for You (1989)

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