Brothers in Trouble

Golden Alexander for Best Film

Thessaloniki Film Festival 1996
‘Race in the Media Award’ 1996

Channel 4
“… groundbreaking in its depiction of … illegal immigrants in the Britain of the sixties…”

Derek Malcolm, The Guardian
“… plenty of dry humour, a self-mocking tone to many of the characterisations and an optimistic finale…”

Derek Elley, Variety

Credits

Starring Om Puri, Angeline Ball, Pavan Malhotra
Director Udayan Prasad
Producer/Screenwriter Robert Buckler
Executive Producer George Faber
Inspired by the novel Return Journey by Abdullah Hussein

Renegade Films Production for BBC Films, in association with Kinowelt Film Produktion GmbH and Mikado Film.

Filmed on location in Leeds and at Three Mills Island Studios in London.

Eighteen men in one house, illegal immigrants, living in the dark, going to work in the dark, trying to save enough money from labouring in the local wool mills to buy a piece of land back home…

Then Hussein Shah (Om Puri), the leader of the house, brings home a stray white girl he has picked up in a local cafe. To begin with, Mary (Angeline Ball) brings warmth, fun and light… …but when she turns out to be pregnant, things spiral out of control…