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Cal

  • Director:  Pat O'Connor
  • DOP: Jerzy Zielinski
  • Year: 1984
  • Genre:  Drama, Romance, Thriller
  • Runtime: 102 minutes

Cal (John Lynch), a young man on the fringes of the I. R. A., falls in love with Marcella (Dame Helen Mirren), a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the I. R. A.

Cast and Crew

Producers

  • David Puttnam

Writers

  • Bernard MacLaverty

Cast

  • Helen Mirren
  • John Lynch
  • Donal McCann
  • John Kavanagh

Awards

  • Winner Cannes Film Festival Best Actress
  • Nominated Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or
  • Nominated 2 BAFTA Awards