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Carla's Song

A dream called freedom. A nightmare called Nicaragua.
Oct 30, 1996 · 2h 5m
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War
Drama
Romance

PLOT

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.

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CAST

Robert Carlyle
George Lennox
Oyanka Cabezas
Carla
Scott Glenn
Bradley
Louise Goodall
Maureen
Salvador Espinoza
Rafael
Margaret McAdam
George's Mother
Gary Lewis
Sammy
Subash Singh Pall
Victor
Directed by Ken Loach

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
$25,845
Production
Alta Films S.A., The Glasgow Film Fund, Road Movies Dritte Produktionen, Parallax Pictures, Institute of Culture, Filmstiftung NRW, ARD Degeto, TVE, Film4 Productions
Country
NI, GB

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