Yanks (1979) (Blu-ray & DVD) (UK Import)
Yanks (1979) (Blu-ray & DVD) (UK Import)
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- Country of origin:
- Großbritannien, 1979
- Age release:
- Dieser Titel ist nicht FSK-geprüft.
Delivery to minors is not possible.
Infos zu Titeln ohne Jugendfreigabe - UPC/EAN:
- 5060000703207
- Release date:
- 3.12.2018
- Genre:
- Drama, Krieg
- Playing time ca.:
- 139 Min.
- Director:
- John Schlesinger
- Actor:
- Richard Gere, Vanessa Redgrave, Lisa Eichhorn
- Film music:
- Richard Rodney Bennett
- German title:
- Yanks - Gestern waren wir noch Fremde
- Language:
- Englisch
- Picture:
- Widescreen
- Subtitles:
- Englisch
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A World War II epic both sweeping and intimate, Yanks is a triumph for director John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy, Sunday Bloody Sunday,), and a moving showcase for its splendid ensemble cast led by Richard Gere and Vanessa Redgrave. A war film without battle scenes, Schlesinger's drama instead focuses on relationships far from the front, examining the romantic entanglements between the stationed U. S. soldiers and the locals in a small town in Northern England in the 1944 period before the Normandy landings.
Three very different women find themselves attracted to the American G. I.s at a new military base in town. Gere is Sgt. Matt Dyson, initiating a tentative courtship with a young woman still pining for her fiancee overseas. Redgrave is wealthy socialite Helen, engaged in an affair with a captain (William Devane), while both of them long for their respective spouses far from home. And Sergeant Ruffelo's fling with Mollie (Wendy Morgan) occurs just as the interactions between the Yanks and their British hosts begin to strain under the tension of the war, and uncertainty about what happens to their new romances.
A personal passion project for Schlesinger -- who was given free creative reign after the success of Marathon Man (1976) -- Yanks was generally not afforded the attention it deserved upon initial release, and as one of the director's warmest films, it's a gem ripe for rediscovery.
Specials
1080p presentation (on Blu-ray) from a new high-definition transfer
Original LPCM mono audio (on Blu-ray)
Optional English SDH subtitles
Archival interview with director John Schlesinger
Original theatrical trailer
PLUS: A Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film, alongside rare archival imagery
Reviews
Die Zeit: "Mit epischer Gelassenheit erzählt Schlesinger zwei anglo-amerikanische Liebesgeschichten. Ein romantischer Film, auf angenehme Weise altmodisch, aber doch mit kritischen Aspekten: Suff und Rassismus bei den Amerikanern werden so wenig unterschlagen wie die engstirnige Fremdenfeindlichkeit mancher Briten."Lexikon des Int.Films: "Amerikanische Soldaten, vor der Invasion in Frankreich für kurze Zeit in England stationiert, stoßen bei der Inselbevölkerung auf Zurückhaltung, ja teilweise Ablehnung."
