Angie, the hero of the story, has little formal education, but she is smart, energetic and ambitious. She used to work in a professional organization and was fired for misconduct. She took the initiative and opened an almost identical employment agency with her friend and roommate Rose. They skillfully deal with foremen, migrant workers and old employment agencies, and the eagerness of foreign immigrants to find jobs makes their agencies do well. This story, full of tears and bitterness of migrant workers living in a foreign land, reveals the true face of the so-called Anglo-Saxon myth. Director. Director.
Ken roach ken loach
playwright
Paul Laverty Paul Laverty
Actor, actor
Kyle Si Tong Walling ...
Julie Alice Juliet Ellis ... Rose
Leslaw Zurek Leslaw Zurek ... cairol.
Farouk Proudti ..... Amir
Branko Tomovic ... Milan.
Serge Sorich ... Toni
Radovan Caim ... January.
Frank Gilhooley ... Derek (male name)
Steve Lorrigan ... Officer.
Raymond Maynes ... Andy (male name equals Andrew)
Nadine Marshall ... Diane
Joe Severely ... Jamie
Colin Caughlin ... Jeff (male name)
Maggie Russell ... Cathy
Davud Rastagu ..... Mahmoud (alias Davud Rastagu)
Mahin Aminia ... the wife of Mahmoud.
Shadah Kavousian ... children of Mahmoud and his wife.
Sheera Kavousian ... children of Mahmoud and his wife.
David doyle ... Tony (member of extra band)
Eddie Webber ... Director of the company.
Johnny Palmiro ... Director of the company.
Jackie Robinson-Brown ... headmistress (Jackie Robinson Brown)
Producer-produced
Rafael Booker ... co-producer.
Tim Cole ... production line manufacturer.
Ken roach ken loach ... producer.
Rebecca O 'Brien ... Producer.
Peter Reich ... Co-producer.
Ulrich felsberg ... Executive producer.
original music
George Fenton
Photographic film y
Nigel Willoughby, Nigel Willoughby
Casting director
Karin Crawford
Artistic director, production designer
Fergus Clegg
Art design art guidance
Peter james
Fashion design by
Carol Miller
Assistant director/assistant director
Nick Heckstall-Smith ... co-first assistant director.
Michael Ushchinski ... Second Assistant Director's Chinese title.
Free world
Original title
This is a free world.
More foreign movie names
These days ... Britain (job title)
In the free world ... Italy.
Polak potrzebny od zaraz ..... Poland
Film genre
The plot of a play
conversational language
English
colour
colour
grade
UK: 15 Canada: 14A Switzerland: 12
Production company
BIM allocation area [Italy]
EMC products
Movie 4 [English]
North Rhine-westfalen [German]
SPI international [Poland]
Sixteen films co., ltd. [UK]
Tolnai Sol Film Company [Spain]
Movie 4
Issuing company
Channel 4 movies [UK ]...(2007) (UK) (in theory)
Movie 4 [English ]...(2007) (UK) (all media)
Film Distribution [Netherlands] ... (2008) (Netherlands) (Drama)
Uninterrupted Entertainment [Sweden ]...(2008) (Denmark) (Dramatic) /(2008) (Sweden) (Dramatic) /(2008) (Norway) (Dramatic) /(2008) (Iceland) (Dramatic)
Other companies
Tip [UK] ... negative cutting
Release date?
Italy
Italy
September 2007 1 day (Venice Film Festival)
Canada
Canada
September 2007 10 (Toronto Film Festival)
Britain, England
Britain
September 2007 13 ..... (limited)
Britain, England
Britain
September 24(th), 2007
Italy
Italy
September 28(th), 2007
United States of America
United States of America
June 2007 65438+1October11... (AFI Silver)
Spain
Spain
200714 October (Seville Film Festival)
The United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates
65438+February 2007 1 1 ... (Dubai International Film Festival)
France
France
65438+200812 October
Belgium
Belgium
65438+2008 10 month
Spain
Spain
February 22(nd), 2008
the Netherlands
the Netherlands
On March 20th, 2008, the depressed tone, plot and performance of this film highlighted the theme well. At the same time, it also puts forward social problems such as the root of racism and the role of family life. Director ken roach has provided us with a lot of room for thinking.
The movie Free World asks as many questions as it answers, which is similar to ken roach's Song of Railways 200 1. This is a fresh, comfortable and exciting film.
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In this film, ken roach fully explored Kyle Si Tong Wolin's acting talent. We may be deeply shocked by what Angie did in the film, but she still won our sympathy.
-Evening Flag The famous British director ken roach's new film Free World has the same theme as his previous works. After Song of Railways (200 1) paid attention to railway workers, and The Wind Blows Rice Waves (2006) was set in the Irish War of Independence, the entries of Free World at the Venice Film Festival in ken roach turned to the issue of immigration. The title Free World has a strong irony. Under the free capitalist economic system, the concepts of free labor, maximizing the interests of enterprises, globalization and two-way choice are the basic creeds that show their superiority. All these have contributed to the prosperity and development of the capitalist world economy, and even created the so-called Anglo-Saxon myth. Ken roach was keenly aware of the social scar behind the crowing: in such a "free world", there are still a large number of immigrants living in misery and bitterness.
This story is based on the expansion of the European Union in 2004. At this time, thousands of foreigners who can't even speak English flooded into Britain. They are doing jobs that British local workers despise, and they are in danger of losing their jobs all the time, but it is difficult for them to get fair treatment, and they can't achieve the good life they had hoped for. Paul Laverty, the screenwriter of this film, is ken roach's old partner. They have had many wonderful collaborations in the movies The Wind Blows the Rice Wave (2006), A Happy Journey (2005) and Bread and Roses (2000). In this film, Paul Laverty and ken roach show various images of immigrants living in London in a more tortuous and subtle way from the perspective of a British native who provides jobs for immigrants. This ingenious design makes Free World more innovative than similar films, and also helps Paul Laverty win the Best Screenplay Award at the 2007 Venice Film Festival.
Kyle Si Tong Wolin plays Angie in the film, and she is a newcomer to the film industry-she used to be a TV actress. But thanks to ken roach's profound skill, Wolin's performance in this film is very eye-catching. Angie's own experience is integrated with the story from her perspective, which fully reflects ken roach's consistent overall style in roles, performances and plots, and Angie has also become the anchor of the whole movie.
Free World was filmed in Poland, Ukraine and Britain. In order to reflect the authenticity, ken roach also used the Polish actor Leslaw Zurek, who played Angie's one-night stand in the film. The photographer of this film, Nigel Willoughby, is in charge of the French comedy A Beautiful Life. In this film, Nigel replaced his usual artificial light with more natural light, making the color of the film more realistic.
The appearance of Free World increased the number of members of ken roach Film Club to 16, so he changed the domain name of official website to sixteenfilms. This radical director, who graduated from the Law Department of Oxford University, not only showed his ultimate concern for social reality through making movies, but also expressed his position and attitude on these issues in various media. In an interview with the Observer, ken roach strongly criticized the British government for using cheap foreign labor. He said: "We are dividing the working structure of this country. Those workers who work in factories and supermarkets, those foreign immigrants who serve agriculture and manufacturing, they have no protection and no right to speak. " It can be seen that the title of "Conscience Director" is well-deserved for ken roach.
titbits
This film was invited to participate in the main competition unit of the 64th Venice Film Festival, and finally won the best screenplay award. Director ken roach was also nominated for the Golden Lion Award for this film.
This film won the Best Film Award at the Seville Film Festival in 2007.
Director ken roach's last film, The Wind Blows the Rice Waves, won him the Palme d 'Or.