Light Years Away (film)

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Light Years Away

Directed by	Alain Tanner
Written by	Alain Tanner
Starring	Trevor Howard Mick Ford
Distributed by	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	105 mins
Countries	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 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

v t e 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

1967–2000

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Ådalen 31 (1969)
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
Johnny Got His Gun / Taking Off (1971)
Solaris (1972)
The Mother and the Whore (1973)
Arabian Nights (1974)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1975)
Cría Cuervos / The Marquise of O (1976)
Bye Bye Monkey / The Shout (1978)
Siberiade (1979)
My American Uncle (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)
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The Sting of Death / Tilaï (1990)
La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
The Stolen Children (1992)
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
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Breaking the Waves (1996)
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Life Is Beautiful (1998)
Humanité (1999)
Devils on the Doorstep (2000)

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Flanders (2006)
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Gomorrah (2008)
A Prophet (2009)
Of Gods and Men (2010)
The Kid with a Bike / Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
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Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
The Wonders (2014)
Son of Saul (2015)
It's Only the End of the World (2016)
BPM (Beats per Minute) (2017)
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Atlantics (2019)
Compartment No. 6 / A Hero (2021)
Close / Stars at Noon (2022)
The Zone of Interest (2023)
All We Imagine as Light (2024)

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