Carla's Song

Carla's Song
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
Production company	FilmFour Productions Scottish Television Flextech
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	31 January 1997 (UK)
Running time	126 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

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.

Cast

Robert Carlyle - George Lennox
Oyanka Cabezas - Carla
Scott Glenn - Bradley
Salvador Espinoza - Rafael
Louise Goodall - Maureen
Richard Loza - Antonio

External links

Carla's Song at the Internet Movie Database
"We Must Not Move On" (Paul Laverty for The Guardian, April 13, 2005)

Films directed by Ken Loach

Up the Junction (1965)
The End of Arthur's Marriage (1965)
Cathy Come Home (1966)
In Two Minds (1967)
Poor Cow (1967)
Kes (1969)
The Big Flame (1969)
The Save the Children Fund Film (1971)
Family Life (1971)
Days of Hope (1975)
The Price of Coal (1977)
Black Jack (1979)
The Gamekeeper (1980)
A Question of Leadership (1981)
Looks and Smiles (1981)
Which Side Are You On? (1985)
Fatherland (1986)
Hidden Agenda (1990)
Riff-Raff (1991)
Raining Stones (1993)
Ladybird, Ladybird (1994)
Land and Freedom (1995)
A Contemporary Case for Common Ownership (1995)
Carla's Song (1996)
The Flickering Flame (1997)
McLibel (1997)
My Name Is Joe (1998)
Bread and Roses (2000)
The Navigators (2001)
Sweet Sixteen (2002)
Ae Fond Kiss... (2004)
Tickets (2005)
McLibel (2005)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
It's a Free World... (2007)
Looking for Eric (2009)
Route Irish (2010)
The Angels' Share (2012)
The Spirit of '45 (2013)
Jimmy's Hall (2014)

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