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In This World Details

2002 Certificate 15
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Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient In This World follows young Afghan (impressive newcomer Udin Torabi) and his older cousin Enayat (Enayatullah) as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, north-west Pakistan. Entering Turkey on foot through a .. Read more

Starring Jamal Udin Torabi, Enayatullah, Imran Paracha
Director Michael Winterbottom
Genres Drama

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In This World

Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient In This World follows young Afghan (impressive newcomer Udin Torabi) and his older cousin Enayat (Enayatullah) as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, north-west Pakistan. Entering Turkey on foot through a snowy, Kurdish-controlled pass, the pair again take their lives into their hands and face suffocation when they are locked in a freight container on a ship bound for Italy.

Starring Jamal Udin Torabi, Enayatullah, Imran Paracha
Director Michael Winterbottom
Studio FUSION MEDIA
Run time DVD: 1 hr 28 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Drama
Language DVD: Farsi
Subtitles DVD: English
Released Production year: 2002

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DVD: 29 Sep 2003
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    • 2 stars out of 4  

      Shot on digital video, this falls somewhere between documentary and drama, recreating the experience of the vast journey by bus, car, and lorry with its monotony and sudden flurries of action, its uncertainties and dangers. It is an untidy movie, with no

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    • Rated - 5.0 stars  

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      Excellent

      Docu/drama crossover using refugee actors without a script and based on the desparate journeys made from Pakistan to Britain by refugees. Follows the two young ... read more »

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      I thought this film wholly captured the plight of people who want to make a new life in another, less fraught country. It is based on the story of an acutal ... read more »

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    • In This World
      Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient In This World follows young Afghan (impressive newcomer Udin Torabi) and his older cousin Enayat (Enayatullah) as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, north-west Pakistan. ...