Boy Soldier

Jan 30, 1987

1h 39m

★ 0.0

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."

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Cine Cymru

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Cast

Wil Thomas

Richard Lynch

Deirdre

Emer Gillespie

Officer

Bernard Hill

Sergeant Crane

Dafydd Hywel

Quinnell

Simon Coady

Joe

Dylan Davies

Truscott-Jones

James Donnelly

Wright

Russell Gomer

Sergeant

Terry Jackson

Roberts

Bernard Latham

Gary

Timothy Lyn

Hotel Manager

Stephen Lyons

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