Carla's song
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Carla's song |
| Original title | Carla's song |
| Country of production | Great Britain , Spain , Germany |
| original language | English / Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 126 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ken Loach |
| script | Paul Laverty |
| production |
Sally Hibbin , Ulrich Felsberg , Gerardo Herrero |
| music | George Fenton |
| camera | Barry Ackroyd |
| cut | Jonathan Morris |
| occupation | |
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Carla's Song is a feature film by British director Ken Loach from 1996. The British-Spanish-German co-production is based on a script by Paul Laverty in which the Sandinista revolution is illuminated using a fictional drama.
action
Carla's Song tells the story of post-revolutionary Sandinista Nicaragua . Ken Loach directs the story of a young musician who fled Nicaragua to Great Britain after being attacked by Contras . A bus driver from Glasgow who falls in love with the young migrant is told about the time after the Sandinista revolution . Carla's psychological problems caused by the massacres in her home country prompt him to travel to Nicaragua with her. There he met the enthusiasm of the population, but on the other hand also the political instability due to the attacks of the Contras on the civilian population. The bus driver also learns the story of Carla, who was the victim of a contra attack when she was on a music tour with her boyfriend. This was mutilated in the attack. At the end of the film, she decides to stay in Nicaragua to take care of her ex-boyfriend. The bus driver is returning to Scotland.
The film clearly takes a pro-Sandinista and anti-US position. With the help of the figure of an American human rights activist who used to support the Contras as a CIA agent at the time, Ken Loach puts the story of Carla in the context of the American containment policy of the 1970s and 1980s in Central America. In Loach's work, Carla's Song is closely related to Land and Freedom , which tells the story of the Trotskyist militias in the Spanish Civil War. Both films try in their own way to convey a piece of Marxist or anarchist revolutionary history.
criticism
“The unusually selfless love story is bound to a realistic cinema and conveys closeness and authenticity through a documentary style. Despite politically motivated partisanship for the Sandinista cause and some one-sidedness, the film is a convincing example of the cinematic theming of the transforming power of love. "
Awards
The film was nominated for the “ Golden Lion ” at the Venice Film Festival in 1996 , where it won the “Golden Medal” of the Italian Senate.
Web links
- Carla's Song in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Carla's song on cineman.ch
- Carla's song on Filmzentrale.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Carla's song. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 8, 2017 .