Boy Soldier

APPROPIATE

1987 / 99min.

Rating6

Genres

Drama

Synopsis

A young Welsh soldier on duty in Northern Ireland finds himself used as a political pawn, following a tragic incident during a violent clash with some of the local agitators. The Guardian proposed that "if Spielberg's ET, in the immortal words of Pauline Kael, was a bliss out, Karl Francis' 'Boy Soldier' is a bleed out for sheer fist shaking emotionalism, it would be hard to find another British film of recent years to beat it."

Directors

Karl Francis

Actors

Terry Jackson

James Donnelly

Bernard Hill

Richard Lynch

Robert Pugh

Dafydd Hywel

Ian Saynor

Emer Gillespie

Simon Coady

Roger Nott

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