Carla's Song | |
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Directed by | Ken Loach |
Produced by | Sally Hibbin |
Written by | Paul Laverty |
Starring | Robert Carlyle |
Narrated by | Stephen Fry |
Music by | George Fenton |
Cinematography | Barry Ackroyd |
Edited by | Jonathan Morris |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date
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31 January 1997 (UK) |
Running time
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126 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Carla's Song is a 1996 British film directed by Ken Loach and written by Paul Laverty.
Set in 1987, it tells the story of the relationship between a Scottish bus driver, George Lennox (Robert Carlyle) and Carla (Oyanka Cabezas), a Nicaraguan woman living in exile in Glasgow. Searching for her past (her family and boyfriend), Carla returns to war-torn Nicaragua with George, into the thick of the U.S. sponsored Contra insurgency against the Sandinistas.