Carla's Song
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Kenneth Loach
Amy Bank
Norma Rivera
Pamela Turner
Salvador Espinoza
Greg Friel
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Set in 1987, the year of the Contra rebels' assault against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, a love story which begins on a bus in Glasgow and ends amid the gunfire and explosions of war in Nicaragua. George is a free-spirited Scottish bus driver struggling against the conventionality and bureaucracy of his blue collar life. His encounter with Carla, a beautiful Nicaraguan refugee who is mourning her past and pining for her homeland, sweeps him headlong into a journey of self-discovery and political awareness.
Director
Kenneth Loach
Cast
Amy Bank
Norma Rivera
Pamela Turner
Salvador Espinoza
Greg Friel
Josefa Calderon Decalero
Maria Jose Silva
Stewart Preston
Karla Obando
Anne Marie Timoney
Anita Setright
Luis Talavera
Richard Loza
Scott Glenn
Jose Menese
Laura Tredway
Belinda Forbes
Richard Senghas
Santos Olivas
Rosa Amelia Lopez
Tom Lee
Margaret Mcadam
Azucena Figueroa
Alison Paula Rizo
Alcides Gonzales
Subash Sing Pall
Alicia Devine
Jimmy Jose Arguello
Micky Mckay
John Paul Leach
Mark Forget
Andy Townsley
Tomasa Garcia
Gary Lewis
Ramon Monterrey
Elba Aurora Talavera
Oyanka Cabezas
Belkis Ramirez
Keila Rodriguez
Manuela Guevarra
Santiago Neira
Jose Alberto Avendano
Robert Carlyle
Junior Escobar
Ana Victoria Borge
Alma Blanco Medina
Tatiana Miranda
Louise Goodall
Ruth Pacheco
Crew
Cesar Abades
Reyes Abades
Barry Ackroyd
T J Aleshi
Iain Andrew
Javier Antinoo
Jeanie Bacharach
Joss Barratt
Ray Beckett
Elmer Bernstein
Gillian Berrie
Jose Angel Blandon
Christine Blundell
Yousaf Bokhari
Yousaf Bokhari
Allan Bolt
Denise Booth
Frank Boyle
Kevin Brazier
Marvin Briceno
Lucinda Broadbent
Jas Brown
Martin Butterworth
Manuel L Canizares
Salvador Cardenal
Guillermo Castillo
Celio Castro
Peter Clarke
Fergus Clegg
Paul Clegg
Laia Colet
Guy Cowan
Ana Coyne Alonso
Penny Crawford
Daphne Dare
Robert Diment
Lorna Dixon
Helen Dolan
Anneli Downing
Maria Engo
Francisco Escofet
Rafael Espina
Salvador Espinoza
Wendy Ettinger
Stewart Farmer
Ulrich Felsberg
George Fenton
Tanya Freedman
Francisco Garcia
Jose Antonio Garcia
Carlos Mejia Godoy
Luis Enrique Godoy
Belen Goni
Juan Manuel Gonzales
Tommy Gormley
Stephen Griffiths
Stephen Grosz
Stephen Hargreaves
Gerardo Herrero
Sally Hibbin
Frank Hidaldo
Steffi Hiller
Dan Hopewell
Robert How
David Howell-evans
Paul Hulme
Baz Irvine
Georgina Isherwood
Patrick Isherwood
Victor Jara
Florence Jaugey
Zeidy Jeffers
Humberto Jimenez
Elton John
Ben Johnson
Martin Johnson
Carlos Kauffman
Vincent Kinnaird
Alina Lanza
Paul Laverty
Kate Ledger
Susanna Lenton
Liz Light
Brennan Linsley
Miguel Llorenc
Jose Luis Lopez
Jose Esteban Lopez
Josep Magem
Maite Marti
Willy Mcadam
Margarita Mcdermott
John Mckain
Kristin Mcmahon
Chris Mcmillan
Jim Mcmillan
Ramon Mendez
Walter Jose Meza
Campbell Mitchell
Sally Morgan
Anthony Morris
Jonathan Morris
Lena Mossum
Georg Nonnenmacher
David Old
Jorge Paladino
Clive Pendry
Frank Pineda
Javier Prados
Helmut Prein
Diego Quemada-dizz
Mark Ritchie
Silvio Rodriguez
Rosa Romero
Pati Rosales
Rhona Russell
Felix Sepulveda
Rossy Soley
Fernando Somarriba
Tricia Speight
Alison Stanley
Glenn Start
Lesley Stewart
John Stockwell
Edgar Suarez
Adrian Thomas
Brian Thompson
Dave Thompson
Fernando Torres
Peter Townshend
Miguel Urbina
Filmstiftung Nordrhein Westfalen
Rab Wilson
Fiona Winning
Reg Woolmore
Jorge Sanchez Zapata
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal at the 1996 Venice Film Festival.
Released in United States 1996
Released in United States 1997
Released in United States April 1997
Released in United States August 28, 1998
Released in United States November 1996
Released in United States on Video March 15, 1999
Released in United States on Video March 16, 1999
Released in United States Summer June 26, 1998
Shown at Chicago Latino Film Festival April 11-14, 1997.
Shown at Filmfest DC in Washington, DC April 22 - May 3,
Shown at London Film Festival November 7-24, 1996.
Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival April 24 - May 8, 1997.
Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival September 26 - October 12, 1997.
Shown at Venice Film Festival (in competition) August 29 - September 7, 1996.
Began shooting November 27, 1995.
Completed shooting February 3, 1996.
Two days of additional photography in Nicaragua took place prior to the start of principal photography in Scotland. After Scotland, the production returned to Nicaragua for additional principal photography.
1998.
Released in United States 1996 (Shown at Venice Film Festival (in competition) August 29 - September 7, 1996.)
Released in United States 1997 (Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival April 24 - May 8, 1997.)
Released in United States 1997 (Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival September 26 - October 12, 1997.)
Released in United States on Video March 15, 1999
Released in United States on Video March 16, 1999
Released in United States April 1997 (Shown at Chicago Latino Film Festival April 11-14, 1997.)
Released in United States Summer June 26, 1998
Released in United States August 28, 1998 (Los Angeles)
Released in United States November 1996 (Shown at London Film Festival November 7-24, 1996.)
