Carla's Song is a British

United Kingdom

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 movie

Film

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 directed by Ken Loach

Ken Loach

Kenneth "Ken" Loach is a Palme D'Or winning English film and television director.He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness , labour rights and child abuse at the...

 with screenplay by Paul Laverty

Paul Laverty

Paul Laverty is a Scottish lawyer and scriptwriter.-Birth and early career:Paul Laverty was born in Calcutta, India, to an Irish mother and Scottish father. He obtained a Philosophy degree at the Gregorian University in Rome...

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Set in 1987, it tells the story of the relationship between a Scottish

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 bus driver, George Lennox (Robert Carlyle

Robert Carlyle

Robert Carlyle, OBE is a Scottish film and television actor. He is known for a variety of roles including those in Trainspotting, Hamish Macbeth, The Full Monty, The World Is Not Enough, Angela's Ashes, The 51st State, and 28 Weeks Later...

) and Carla (Oyanka Cabezas), a Nicaraguan woman living in exile

Exile

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 in Glasgow

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. Searching for her past (her family and boyfriend), Carla returns to war-torn Nicaragua

Nicaragua

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 with George, into the thick of the U.S.

United States

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 sponsored Contra

Contras

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 insurgency against the Sandinistas

Sandinista National Liberation Front

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Cast

• Robert Carlyle
  Robert Carlyle
  Robert Carlyle, OBE is a Scottish film and television actor. He is known for a variety of roles including those in Trainspotting, Hamish Macbeth, The Full Monty, The World Is Not Enough, Angela's Ashes, The 51st State, and 28 Weeks Later...
  
   - George Lennox
• Oyanka Cabezas - Carla
• Scott Glenn
  Scott Glenn
  Theodore Scott Glenn is an American actor. His roles have included Wes Hightower in Urban Cowboy , astronaut Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff ,Emmett in Silverado , Commander Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October , Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs and The Wise Man in Sucker Punch -Early...
  
   - Bradley
• Salvador Espinoza - Rafael
• Louise Goodall - Maureen
• Richard Loza - Antonio

External links

• "We Must Not Move On" (Paul Laverty for The Guardian
  The Guardian
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  , April 13, 2005)