Project Detail

Beautiful People

Name: Beautiful People
Director: Jasmin Dizdar
Released: 1999
Duration: 108 mins

Synopsis

London, 13th October 1993. The day England are to play Holland in a critical World Cup qualifier. The Bosnian war is at its height, Sebrenica is besieged and the UN are preparing relief airdrops. A Serb (Dado Jehan) and a Croat (Faruk Pruti) meet on a London bus. Recognising each other as fellow refugees from the same village in Bosnia they immediately renew their contact by . . . attempting to beat each other to a pulp. Their subsequent manic chase through the streets of central London sets the scene for the electric comedy of Beautiful People. Jasmin Dizdar's extraordinary debut feature film tracks the interlinked and troubled lives of four British families whose encounters with refugees from the war in former Yugoslavia helps them to see the beauty that exists in their own lives.

Beautiful People unites its disaffected, troubled and eccentric characters in a panoramic portrait of London's melting pot of class and culture and infuses it with a dark comedy which has at its heart a profound understanding that if 'life changes just a little bit in your favour - it can be beautiful'.

Details

Year: 1999
Type of project: Features
Running time: 108 mins
Format: 35mm Kodak
Director: Jasmin Dizdar
Producer: Ben Woolford
Director of Photography: Barry Ackroyd
Principal cast: Rosalind Ayres, Linda Bassett, Charlotte Coleman, Edin Dzandzanovic, Nicholas Farrell, Julian Firth
Screen Writer: Jasmin Dizdar

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Tall Stories Ltd

Studio 40
Clink St. Studios
1 Clink Street
London SE1 9DG
UK

T +44 (0)20 7357 8050

101233.2423@compuserve.com

Sales Company

Fortissimo Film Sales

Herenmarkt 10-2
1013-ED Amsterdam

T +00 31 20 627 3215

ffsales@globalxs.nl

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