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Boy Soldier (1987)
Directed by Karl Francis
Overview
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.”
Length 99 minutes
Actors
Richard Lynch | Emer Gillespie | Bernard Hill | Dafydd Hywel | Simon Coady | Dylan Davies | James Donnelly | Russell Gomer | Terry Jackson | Bernard Latham | Timothy Lyn | Stephen Lyons | Roger Nott | Robert Pugh | Ian Saynor