Beautiful People – 1999 | 109mins | Drama, Comedy | Colour

Plot Synopsis

Beautiful People is the comic story of a group of people living in London during the preliminaries of the World Cup who have been affected by the Balkan conflict. Structured in a similar way to Robert Altman’s Short Cuts, writer-director Jasmin Dizdar, himself a Bosnia refugee, manages to extract plenty of humour from a depressing situation.

London 1993. When Bosnian refugee Pero (Edin Dzandzanovic) is hit by a car, he ends up in crowded hospital with a fighting Serb and a Croat (Frank Purti and Dado Jehan), also teenage Welsh arsonist (Nicholas McGaughey). Portia Thornton (Charlotte Coleman) is the kindly trainee doctor who does her best to bring warmth and humanity to proceedings and falls in love with the penniless Pero. In the same hospital, there is overworked obstetrics doctor Mouldy (Nicholas Farrell) who oversees a Muslim woman who was raped in Bosnia and now wants an abortion.