

A Foreign Field
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.
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- Language
- English
- hotel
- prostitute
- war veteran
- world war ii
- normandy, france
- dead soldier
- son-in-law
- d-day
- old flame
- mental illness
- henpecked husband
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United KingdomGB
- TVBBC One (Screen One)12 Sept 1993
- Physical12DVD3 Mar 2008
CanadaCA
- Theatrical (limited)Toronto International Film Festival.10 Sept 1993
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A Foreign Field was released on 10 September 1993.
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CinemaSerf
10/5/2025
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) is travelling to Normandy with his friend “Amos” (Sir Alec Guinness), upon whom he clearly depends. Their arrival sees …
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