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Carla's Song is a British film of genre Drama directed by Ken Loach released in USA on 26 june 1998 with Robert Carlyle
Carla's Song (1996)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 26 june 1998
Length 2h6
Directed by Ken Loach
OriginUnited-kingdom
Themes Political films
Rating67%
Carla's Song (1996) is a British movie directed by Ken Loach with screenplay 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.
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Glasgow, 1987. George, chauffeur de bus, est amoureux de Carla, jeune réfugiée nicaraguayenne qui a fui la guerre dans son pays, après avoir été témoin d'évènements dont elle ne veut pas parler. Un jour il la sauve d'une tentative de suicide. Il décide alors de se rendre avec elle au Nicaragua sur les traces de son passé. Parti avec une sympathie pour le pays de Carla et pour ses compagnons de lutte, ce paisible garçon se retrouve soudain au cœur d'une violence qui n'est pas sienne, qu'il n'avait jamais soupçonnée, et qu'il est incapable de supporter.Actors
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