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Yasmin (2004) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
87 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Kenneth Glenaan

Written By:
Simon Beaufoy

Actors:
Archie Panjabi ..... Yasmin Husseini
Renu Setna ..... Khalid
Steve Jackson ..... John
Syed Ahmed ..... Nasir
Shahid Ahmed ..... Faysal Husseini
Badi Uzzaman ..... Hassan
Amar Hussain ..... Kamal
Joanna Booth ..... Cheryl
Emma Ashton ..... Sam
Rae Kelly ..... Wendy
Tammy Barker ..... Anna
Suraj Dass ..... Kashiff
Miriam Ali ..... Amina
Mary Wray ..... Mary
Joyce Kennedy ..... Bobby

Synopsis:

Yasmin resents her arranged marriage and takes off her wedding ring every day at work, as well as changing into Western clothes. After the September 11th attack on the US Trade Center, Yasmin finds that work colleagues are prejudiced against her and finds herself becoming uncomfortable both at home and at work. Anti-terrorist police raid her and her family's homes and arrest her husband because of phone calls he made to Pakistan to a teacher cousin who works in a school partly-funded by a separatist movement. Knowing her husband is innocent of any terrorist links she holds back on divorcing him as she intended and tries her best to get him released. Meanwhile, resentful of his treatment by the police and stirred up by a visiting extremist her drug-dealing younger brother goes off to fight for the Palestinians. Yasmin and her father are reconciled as he is left bemused and alone by his son's leaving and what has happened.

In England, the Pakistanis Yasmin lives two lives in two different worlds: in her community, she wears Muslin clothes, cooks for her father and brother and has the traditional behavior of a Muslin woman. Further, she has a non-consumed marriage with the illegal immigrant Faysal to facilitate the British stamp in his passport, and then divorce him. In her job, she changes her clothes and wears like a Westerner, is considered a standard employee and has a good Caucasian friend who likes her. After the September 11th, the prejudice in her job and the treatment of common people makes her take side and change her life.

A young Muslim woman living in Britain campaigns for the release of her immigrant husband from his detainment in a holding centre.

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