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Carla's Song

"A dream called freedom. A nightmare called Nicaragua."

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1998 · 2h 5m
Drama, Romance, War
Starring Robert Carlyle · Scott Glenn · Louise Goodall
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1987, love in time of war: bus driver George meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly-sad life in Glasgow. Her back is scarred, her boyfriend missing, her family dispersed; she's suicidal. George takes her to Nicaragua to find out what's happened to them and help her face her past.

Theatrical
Jun 26, 1998
Box Office
$26K
DVD / Blu-ray
Mar 30, 1999
Director
Ken Loach
Writer
Paul Laverty
Producers
Ulrich Felsberg, Gerardo Herrero, Sally Hibbin
Music
George Fenton
Studio
Alta Films S.A., The Glasgow Film Fund, Road Movies Dritte Produktionen, Parallax Pictures, Institute of Culture, Filmstiftung NRW, ARD Degeto, TVE, Film4 Productions
Keywords
civil war glasgow, scotland socially deprived family bus ride bus driver nicaragua sandinism 1980s
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Cast

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Robert Carlyle
George Lennox
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Scott Glenn
Bradley
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Louise Goodall
Maureen
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Salvador Espinoza
Rafael
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Gary Lewis
Sammy
S
Subash Singh Pall
Victor
S
Stewart Preston
McGurk
A
Anne Marie Timoney
Warden
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Ford Kiernan

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