“We shall meet again...”
Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy. They encounter Waldo, an American on a similar mission, and the meeting sparks memories of an old girlfriend from the past. With the mysterious American lady Lisa in their wake, Cyril and Waldo decide to try and track her down.
Charles Sturridge
Martyn Auty
Steve Lanning
Roy Clarke
Richard Greatrex
Alec Guinness
Amos
Leo McKern
Cyril
Lauren Bacall
Lisa
John Randolph
Waldo
Jeanne Moreau
Angelique
Geraldine Chaplin
Beverley
Edward Herrmann
Ralph
Dorothy Grumbar
Matron
Michelle Gheleyns-Hue
Shopkeeper
Cateline Alteirac
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I remember watching this when it first aired on the BBC and finding it a remarkably poignant drama stolen by the lively Jeanne Moreau. Watching it again forty years later, I still found it to be a simple yet still powerful story of wartime loyalties, friendships and necessities. “Cyril” (Leo McKern)...
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