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Full Record for Film No. 196


Title:Private Enterprise, A
Director 1:Peter Smith
Country:UK
Year:1974
length:75 mins
Colour/b-w:colour
Genre:feature film
Screenwriter:Dilip Hiro, Peter Smith
Cinematographer:Ray Orton
Editor:Peter Smith
Producer:Peter Smith
Production company:British Film Institute
Cast:Ramon Sinha, Yehya Saeed, Diane Quick, Shukla Bhattercharjee
Location:Not available
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Synopsis:This British Film Institute production traces a South Asian immigrant's problematic pursuit of both entrepreneurial success and social acceptence in the inhospitable setting of industrial Birmingham. No viewing copy available.
Keyword 1:1970s
Keyword 2:Asian
Keyword 3:economy
Keyword 4:masculinity
Keyword 5:migration
Keyword 6:isolation
Keyword 7:Birmingham
Text Reference 1:Bidding for the Mainstream? Black and Asian British Film since the 1990s
Text Reference 2:Images of Britain
Text Reference 3:A Private Enterprise

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