The Land Girls
The Land Girls is a 1998 film directed by David Leland and starring Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz, Anna Friel, Steven Mackintosh and Ann Bell. It is based on the 1995 novel Land Girls by Angela Huth.
Plot
During both the First and Second World Wars, the Women's Land Army was set up in the United Kingdom to recruit women to work at farms where men had left to go to war. Women in the WLA were nicknamed "land girls".
More details
| author | David Leland Keith Dewhurst |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Dorset |
| director | David Leland |
| editor | Nick Moore |
| events | World War II |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | cambridge university farm hairdresser land girls navy officer remote farm royal navy set up united kingdom war women women\'s land army world war |
| musicBy | Brian Lock |
| producer | Andrew Warren Ruth Jackson Simon Relph |
| productionCompany | Canal+ Channel Four Films Intermedia Films |
| publisher | Film4 Productions Gramercy Pictures |
| theme | female buddy romantic drama |