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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0758445903430
Format: Color, Dolby, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Release Date: March 02, 2004
Running Time: 88 minutes
Sales Rank: 65323
Studio: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Michael Winterbottom's amazing In This World is a docudrama that reportedly re-creates the harrowing journey of two young Afghan males smuggled, one step at a time, from a long-established refugee camp in Pakistan across central Asia to their London destination. Shot with remarkable fluidity and narrative thoroughness in what appears many times to be dangerous situations with border guards and untrustworthy handlers (in Iran, Istanbul, Turkey, and France), In This World is anchored by non-actors Jamal Udin Torabi and Enayatullah, playing characters of the same names. The rapid pace and frequent fade-outs in this 88-minute film paradoxically force one's imagination to underscore the agonizing slowness and anxiety of the young men's trip, a technique that becomes nightmarish when Jamal and Enayat are locked for days, with other refugees, inside a ship's container. Winterbottom (24-Hour Party People) and his characteristically protean style maintain remarkable inventiveness throughout. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Decent film that needed to be made
Be warned; don't watch this film with a strong moral view regarding immigration legal or otherwise this is simply the story of what many go through in order to reach the west.
We hear every day (in Europe at least) of illegal immigrants 'flooding the country' but we know almost nothing about them. This film goes some way to answer that question. Many are simply economic migrants rather than fleeing persecution in their homeland and many are arriving on our shores for no other reason ... Read More
Rating:  - Okay.
I feel that the words "gripping documentary film" is inacurate for two reasons. I would not quite call it a documentary, as it is all reinactment, and, secondly, I think "gripping" is a stretch. I always welcome a chance to be reminded of the realities of life for those in less priveledged societies, but I felt that was really the most that this movie offered.
Rating:  - Unusual combination
Terrific film, realistic and informative, and dramatic without being overly dramatic. Shot like a documentary, and usually with the slower pace of a documentary, too. It shows you how difficult the journey really is, it shows you a little of what the cultures are like, compared with each other, it shows you what the land looks like. It's also a great variation on the road picture.
Rating: - I am glad I finally saw it...
I watched this movie with a lump in my throat. While I can understand how to some people, this film may have lacked some background information, to me, it was just perfect. The subject is not uncommon, the characters only wanted a better life, and as someone mentioned, they did not care about politics and money, as most people don't, contrary to popular believes. The movie concentrated on the journey and nothing else. I loved every minute of the movie no matter how uncomfortable it was. I was ... Read More
Rating: - Powerful and moving
This movie is powerful and shot in such a way that it feels real. This movie gives us the perspective of two Afghan refugees who want to get from Pakistan to London, and reveals the danger and risk of such a long journey. I highly recommend this movie as it gives us a small peek into the hazardous journey that many many refugees try to make every year.
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