Boy Soldier

1987•1h 39m•6.0/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.0/10(1)

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."

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Production

Cine Cymru

Language

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Richard Lynch

Wil Thomas

Emer Gillespie

Deirdre

Bernard Hill

Officer

Dafydd Hywel

Sergeant Crane

Simon Coady

Quinnell

Dylan Davies

Joe

James Donnelly

Truscott-Jones

Russell Gomer

Wright

Terry Jackson

Sergeant

Bernard Latham

Roberts

Timothy Lyn

Gary

Stephen Lyons

Hotel Manager

Roger Nott

Captain

Robert Pugh

RSM

Ian Saynor

Captain

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