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CAL

UK 1984 Color

Language: English
Genre/keyword: Drama / thriller / Ireland
Runtime: UK:102
Directed by
Pat O'Connor 

Cast : (in credits order)
Helen Mirren ( Marcella ) John Lynch I ( Cal ) Donald McCann ( Shamie ) John Kavanagh ( Skeffington ) Ray MacAnally ( Cyril Dunlop ) Stevan Rimkus ( Crilly ) Kitty Gibson ( Mrs. Morton ) Louis Rolston ( Dermot Ryan ) Tom Hickey ( preacher ) Gerard Mannix Flynn ( Arty ) Seamus Forde ( Mr. Morton ) Edward Byrne ( Skeffington Sr. ) J.J. Murphy ( man in library ) Audrey Johnson ( Lucy ) Brian Munn ( Robert Morton ) Daragh O'Malley ( scarfaced policeman ) George Shane ( second policeman ) Julia Dearden ( shop assistant ) Yvonne Adams ( neighbour ) Lawrence Foster ( soldier at roadblock ) Scott Frederick ( soldier at farm ) Gerard O'Hagan ( soldier at farm )

Written by
Bernard Mac Laverty ( novel )

Produced by
Terence A. Clegg ( executive ), Susan Richards ( associate ) and David Puttnam

Film Editing by
Michael Bradsell

Music by
Mark Knopfler

Casting by
Patsy Pollock

Plot Summary for Cal

Cal, a young man on the finges of IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a catholic woman whose husband, a protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the Irish extremist.
Award
Helen Mirren is best actress in Cannes Film Festival (1984)