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Beautiful People is a multi-award winning satirical comedy written and directed by Jasmin Dizdar
Jasmin Dizdar
Jasmin Dizdar is a Bosnian-British screenwriter, film director and author on cinema. He is known for his film Beautiful People which won an award for the best film in Un Certain Regard category at the Cannes Film Festival.- Biography :As a child Jasmin Dizdar was an award winning short story writer...

. The film is set in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

 during the time of the Bosnian war
Bosnian War
The Bosnian War or the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between April 1992 and December 1995. The war involved several sides...

. Beautiful People is the only British film to win the award at Cannes Film Festival 1999 whilst Jasmin Dizdar is the first Bosnian-born filmmaker to win a major award at the Cannes Film Festival after the Bosnian war.

Plot

In London, during October 1993, England are playing the Netherlands in the World Cup qualifiers
FIFA World Cup qualification
The FIFA World Cup qualification is the process that a national association football team goes through to qualify for the FIFA World Cup Finals. The FIFA World Cup is a global event, so qualification is required to reduce the large field of participants from about 200 to 32.Qualifying tournaments...

. The Bosnian War
Bosnian War
The Bosnian War or the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between April 1992 and December 1995. The war involved several sides...

 is at its height, and refugees from former Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by an encounter with the refugees; one of the families improbably becomes involved with a Balkan refugee through the England vs. Holland match.

Cast

  • Rosalind Ayres
    Rosalind Ayres
    Rosalind Ayres is an English actress. Active since 1970, Ayres may be best known by a wide audience for her role was in the 1997 film Titanic, in which she played Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon....

     as Nora Thornton
  • Julian Firth
    Julian Firth
    Julian Firth is a British actor, best known for his roles as troubled inmate Davis in the cinematic version of the film Scum and as Brother Jerome in the long running television series Cadfael....

     as Edward Thornton
  • Charles Kay
    Charles Kay
    Charles Kay is an English actor.Kay was born in Coventry, West Midlands, the son of Frances and Charles Beckingham Piff....

     as George Thornton
  • Charlotte Coleman
    Charlotte Coleman
    Charlotte Ninon Coleman was an English actress best known for playing Scarlett in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral , Jess in the television drama Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, and her childhood roles of Sue in Worzel Gummidge and the character Marmalade Atkins...

     as Portia Thornton
  • Edward Jewesbury as Joseph Thornton
  • Danny Nussbaum as Griffin Midge
  • Heather Tobias as Felicity Midge
  • Roger Sloman
    Roger Sloman
    Roger Sloman is an English actor. Born in the Harlesden district of London, he has performed in dozens of television and film appearances since the late 1970s...

     as Roger Midge
  • Walentine Giorgiewa as Dzemila
  • Kenan Hudaverdi as railway worker
  • Faruk Pruti as Croat
  • Dado Jehan as Serb
  • Linda Basset as a nurse
  • Nicholas Farrel as Dr Mouldy


Awards

The film won the Un Certain Regard Prize
Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's Official Selection. It is run at the Salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme d'Or.This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob...

 at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival
1999 Cannes Film Festival
The 52nd Cannes Film Festival was held on May 12-23, 1999. The Palme d'Or went to the French-Belgian film Rosetta by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.-Jury:* David Cronenberg * André Téchiné * Barbara Hendricks...

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