Yanks

original title:
Yanks
other titles:
Yanks - Gestern waren wir noch Freunde
country / year of production:
USA , Great Britain , Germany / 1979
original length:
139 min. , color
premiere:
19 September 1979
genre:
melodrama
based on:
director:
John Schlesinger
film script:
Colin Welland , Walter Bernstein
producer:
Joseph Janni , Lester Persky , Edward Joseph
cinematographer:
Dick Bush
editor:
Jim Clark
composer:
Richard Rodney Bennett
cast (role):
Richard Gere (Matt) , Lisa Eichhorn (Jean) , Vanessa Redgrave (Helen) , William Devane (John) , Chick Vennera (Danny) , Richard Gere , Lisa Eichhorn , Vanessa Redgrave , William Devane , Chick Vennera
more:
plot synopsis:
The sleepy life of an English village is interrupted when a group of young American soldiers are stationed nearby during World War II. With all of the able British men off fighting the war, the lonely women develop a variety of relationships with the young American men. Three couples come together, but only one pair endures the forces which work to separate them.
(Iotis Erlewine for www.allmovie.com)
keywords:
home front , women during wartime , racism
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
remarks:
Won two awards at the British Academy Film Awards.
availability:
VHS, NTSC, PAL