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This entertaining, and controversial, satire tells the story of four would-be jihadists who live in Sheffield and who collectively decide to become suicide bombers. Omaj and Waj attend a terrorist training camp in Pakistan while Barry and Faisal take a different approach and attempt to train crows as bombers. The film culminates in the four ideologically confused men trying to blow themselves up at the London Marathon. With great acting and superb writing, the film pulls off the difficult balancing act of constructing a comedy about terrorism without undermining the serious nature of its subject matter.
d. Christopher Morris, UK 2010, English, 35mm, 101 min
Language: Urdu/Arabic/English with English subtitles | color
CAST
Riz Ahmed (Omar), Arsher Ali (Hassan), Nigel Lindsay (Barry), Kayvan Novak (Waj), Adeel Akhtar (Faisal), Benedict Cumberbatch, Preeya Kalidas
Executive Producers
Carole Baraton, Peter Carlton, Will Clarke, Caroline Leddy, Angus Aynsley, Mark Findlay, Alex Marshall
Producers
Mark Herbert, Derrin Schlesinger
Associate Producers
Afi Khan, Faisal A. Qureshi
Cinematographer
Lol Crawley
Editor
Billy Sneddon
Production Designer
Dick Lunn
Film Contact
Libby Durdy, Warp Films
Email: libby@warpfilms.com
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