Beautiful People

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 film

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

Genre

Production status

Complete

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Last updated 26th November 2005