Boy Soldier
Film19871h 39m
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- Director
- Karl Francis
- Language
- Welsh
- Released
- 1987-01-30
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
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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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