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Full Record for Film No. 195


Title:Mohammed's Daughter
Director 1:Suri Krishnamma
Country:UK
Year:1986
length:34 mins
Colour/b-w:colour
Genre:short film, drama
Screenwriter:Suri and Shalini Krishnamma
Cinematographer:Tim Normington
Editor:Mike Lane
Producer:Bournemouth & Poole College
Production company:
Cast:Saeed Jaffrey, Rita Wolf, Sandra Michaels
Location:TABB
TABB No.:80
Synopsis:Krishnamma's film tells the story of an elderly South Asian patient in psychiatric hospital, seemingly unable to feed himself or speak. He is more or less abandoned until a young nurse realises that his cultural needs have been neglected. Disobeying the rules, she takes him to a curry house and gets him into a conversation with someone who speaks the same language.
Keyword 1:Asian
Keyword 2:first generation
Keyword 3:belonging
Keyword 4:migration
Keyword 5:isolation
Keyword 6:second generation
Keyword 7:father-daughter relationship

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