Country: UK
Year: 2010
Duration: 100'
four lions Omar lives in a small town in England and is determined to become a jihad warrior. He is followed by Waj, a rather dim-witted friend, weird Faisal and Barry, a white guy who has converted to Islam. When Omar and Waj leave for a training camp in Pakistan, Barry, the most fanatical of the group, is forced to remain in England. He recruits a new follower, the rapper Hassan. When the two return, despite the violent struggle for leadership between Omar and Barry and strong disagreement within the group, they finally manages to plan a suicide attack that is to take place during the London marathon. But the outcome of the operation is not what they had planned. “I spoke with experts on terrorism, the police, the secret service and hundreds of Muslims. Even the ones who had been trained and fought the jihad throw light on its farcical, tragicomic aspect. Five jihadists plan to ram an American warship with a launch full of bombs. They put the boat in the water, they load it up with explosives, they board the ship and it sinks. Terrorism is ideology, but it’s also idiocy.”
Biography
film director
Chris Morris
Chris Morris (Bristol, United Kingdom, 1965) has, for over twenty years, conducted, written and produced programs for British television and radio. He debuted in TV on the BBC as the author, producer and presenter of the satirical program The Day Today (1994). In 1997 he made another very successful parody for Channel 4, Brass Eye. He has also directed various episodes of comedy series he created, such as Jam (2000) and Nathan Barley (2005). Four Lions marks his debut as a film director.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Four Lions (2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Chris Morris
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Simon Blackwell
fotografia/cinematography
Lol Crawley
montaggio/film editing
Billy Sneddon
scenografia/production design
Dick Lunn
costumi/costume design
Charlotte Walter
suono/sound
Malcolm Hirst
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Riz Ahmed (Omar), Nigel Lindsay (Barry), Kayvan Novak (Waj), Adeel Akhtar (Faisal), Arsher Ali (Hassan), Craig Parkinson (Matt), Preeya Kalidas (Sofia), Julia Davis (Alice), Benedict Cumberbatch (il negoziatore/Peacemaker), Wasim Zakir (Ahmed), Mohammad Aqil (Mahmood)
produttori/producers
Mark Herbert, Derrin Schlesinger
produzione/production
Warp Films
distribuzione/distribution
Videa-Cde
vendita all’estero/world sales
Wild Bunch
