
Ae Fond Kiss...(2004)
A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.



Robert Carlyle
George Lennox

Oyanka Cabezas
Carla

Scott Glenn
Bradley

Louise Goodall
Maureen
Salvador Espinoza
Rafael
Margaret McAdam
George's Mother

Gary Lewis
Sammy
Subash Singh Pall
Victor
Stewart Preston
McGurk
Richard Loza
Antonio
Carla's Song is a war, drama, romance film released in 1996 exploring themes of civil war, glasgow, scotland, socially deprived family, bus ride, bus driver, nicaragua. Directed by Ken Loach, it stars Robert Carlyle, Oyanka Cabezas, Scott Glenn. A Glasgow man visits war-torn Nicaragua with a refugee tormented by her memories.
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