It's A Wonderful Afterlife
Synopsis
Details
- Year
- 2010
- Type of film
- Features
- Running time
- 100 mins
- Director
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Gurinder Chadha
- Producer
- Chris Curling, Paul Mayeda Berges
- Editor
- Oral Norrie Ottey
- Screenwriter
- Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges
- Director of Photography
- Dick Pope
- Production Designer
- Nick Ellis
- Principal cast
- Shabana Azmi, Goldy Notay, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Sally Hawkins, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Shaheen Khan, Jimi Mistry, Zoe Wanamaker
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Bend It Films
Indian Film Company2nd Floor
No 1 Le Truchot
St Peter Port
Guernsey
GY1 3JX
Sales Company
HanWay Films
24 Hanway StreetLondon W1T 1UH
UK
T +44 (0)20 7290 0750
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