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Boy Soldier

Boy Soldier

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 30, 1987

Runtime

1h 39m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

Milwr Bychan

Production Companies

Cine Cymru

Director

Karl Francis

Budget

$1,113,537

Description

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."