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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Countries
Spain United Kingdom Germany Nicaragua
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Year
1997
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Genre
War
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Alternative titles
- La canción de Carla Alternative
Introduction
“Its portrait of an idealistic peasant-based army and its supporters standing up to a ruthless enemy is unabashedly nostalgic for the leftist dream the Sandinistas once represented.”
Stephen Holden, New York Times, 1998
Bus driver George (Robert Carlyle) falls for Carla (Oyanka Cabezas), a Nicaraguan refugee living in Glasgow in 1987. He travels with her to her country of birth – which is in the thick of an attempted coup seeking to overthrow the ruling socialist Sandinistas – to help find her former lover.
Carlyle was familiar with audiences following his performance in Trainspotting (1996), but Cabezas had never acted before, continuing Loach’s preference for using non-professionals in his films. This was Paul Laverty’s first script – a human rights lawyer who had worked in Nicaragua, he first contacted Loach with a screenplay idea back in the 1980s. Loach and Laverty would continue to collaborate on all but one of the director’s subsequent films.
In Loach’s previous movie, Land and Freedom (1995) set during the Spanish Civil War, he also explored the experiences of a Briton coping with a radical political climate abroad.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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George
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Carla
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Bradley
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Rafael
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Maureen
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Sammy
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Antonio
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Victor
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McGurk
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George's mother
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Eileen
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keyboard player
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warden
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taxi driver
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hospital sister
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doctor
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Norma
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Harry
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Carla's mother
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vocals
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Carla's family
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Carla's family
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Carla's family
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Carla's family
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Carla's family
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Carla's family
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Carla's family
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Carla's family
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Carla's family
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Carla's family
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brigadista
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brigadista
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brigadista
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brigadista
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brigadista
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brigadista
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brigadista
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brigadista
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brigadista
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brigadista
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Witness for Peace
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Witness for Peace
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Witness for Peace
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Witness for Peace
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Witness for Peace
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Witness for Peace
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Witness for Peace
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Witness for Peace
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Witness for Peace
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cast member
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cast member
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cast member
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cast member
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cast member
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cast member
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cast member
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cast member
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cast member
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cast member
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cast member
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cast member
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cast member
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cast member
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Credits
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Direction:
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Director
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1st Assistant Director
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1st Assistant Director
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2nd Assistant Director
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2nd Assistant Director
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3rd Assistant Director
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3rd Assistant Director
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[3rd Assistant Director]
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[3rd Assistant Director]
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[3rd Assistant Director]
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[3rd Assistant Director]
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Crowd Co-ordinator
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Script Supervisor
Rights:
Production:
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A Parallax Picture
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In co-production with
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In co-production with
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Developed with the support of
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[European Script Fund is] an initiative of
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[European Script Fund is] an initiative of
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[Produced] for
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[Produced] for
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Present
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[Presented] with the support of
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[Presented] with the support of
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[Presented] with the support of
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[Presented] with the support of
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[Presented] with the support of
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[Presented] with the support of
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[Presented] with the support of
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Producer
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Co-producer
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Co-producer
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Production Manager
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Production Manager
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Production Supervisor
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Production Co-ordinator
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Production Co-ordinator
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Production Accountant
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Accounts Assistant
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Accounts Assistant
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Unit Manager
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Location Manager
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Location Manager
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Producer's Assistant
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Producer's Assistant
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Production Assistant
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Production Assistant
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Production Assistant
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Production Assistant
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Production Assistant
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Production Assistant
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Production Assistant
Casting:
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Casting US
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Casting US
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Casting Nicaragua
Writing:
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Screenplay
Photography:
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Photography
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2nd Camera
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Focus Puller
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Camera Assistant
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[Camera Assistant]
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[Camera Assistant]
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[Camera Assistant]
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Gaffer
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Best Boy
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Best Boy
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Electrician
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Electrician
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Electrician
Stills:
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Stills Photographer
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Stills Photographer
Special Effects:
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Special Effects Supervisor
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Special Effects
Editing:
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Editor
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1st Assistant Editor
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2nd Assistant Editor
Design:
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Production Designer
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Art Director
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Art Director
Llorenç Miquel (uncredited)
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[Art Department] Co-ordinator
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Cartoonist
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Muralist
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Production Buyer
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Production Buyer
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Props
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Props
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Props
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Props
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Construction Manager
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Construction Manager
Costumes:
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Costume Designer
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Costume Designer
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Wardrobe Assistant
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Wardrobe Assistant
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Wardrobe Assistant
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Wardrobe Assistant
Make-up:
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Hair/Make-up
Titles:
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Titles
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Titles Design
Film processing:
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Opticals
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Laboratory
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Film Stock
Music:
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Music
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Music Pre-production
Sound:
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Music Recording
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Sound Recordist
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Boom Operator
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Sound Maintenance
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Sound Maintenance
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Dubbing Mixer
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Assistant Dubbing Mixer
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Dubbing Editor
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Dubbing Editor
Consultant:
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Armourer
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