Details

Release year: 2002

Storyline

Irregular migrants Okwe and Senay work at a posh London hotel and live in constant fear of deportation. One night Okwe stumbles across evidence of a bizarre murder, setting off a series of events that could lead to disaster or freedom.

Top credits

Directors

Stephen Frears

Writers

Steven Knight

Cast

Chiwetel Ejiofor — Okwe
Audrey Tautou — Senay
Sophie Okonedo — Juliette
Kriss Dosanjh — Asian Businessman

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• French actress Audrey Tautou's first English-speaking role. This is all the more impressive because she's speaking English NOT with a French accent.

• Turkish immigrant Senay also has a poster of controversial Turkish director Yilmaz Güney in her temporary apartment. Güney produced many works of 'gritty realism' devoted to the plight of ordinary, working class people in Turkey. At odds with the typical state-sanctioned films and the then Turkish government, the director eventually fled the country and later lost his citizenship.

• The book Guo Yi recommends to Okwe is The Greek Myths by Robert Graves.