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Four Lions (Original title)4 Lions (Alternative title)
Dates: 2010 (Copyright), 07 May 2010 (Release)

Countries: United Kingdom, France

Directed by: Chris Morris

Synopsis: Satire following the often ramshackle exploits of an inept quartet of budding British jihadists.

Genre:
Comedy

Subject:
Terrorism
Releases
Date: 07 May 2010Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - Sound - Dolby DigitalRuntime: 101 mins 16 secs - Length: 9114 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Optimum Releasing
Date: 03 August 2010Country: United KingdomRelease type: Home ViewingFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundRuntime: 97 mins 14 secs - Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Optimum Releasing

Credits (131)
©: Channel Four Television Corporation, Warp Films, Production Company: Warp Films, Presents: Film4, [Presented] In association with: Wild Bunch, Optimum Releasing, Production Services Spain: Celtic Films SA, International Sales by: Wild Bunch, World revenues collected/distributed by: Freeway CAM B.V., Developed with the support of: Film4, Executive Producer: Carole Baraton, Executive Producer: Peter Carlton, Executive Producer: Will Clarke, Executive Producer: Rita Dagher, Executive Producer: Caroline Leddy, Executive Producer: Tessa Ross, Executive Producer: Angus Aynsley, Executive Producer: Mark Findlay, Executive Producer: Alex Marshall, Produced by: Mark Herbert, Derrin Schlesinger, Line Producer (Add'l Photography Unit): Rebekah Wray-Rogers, Associate Producer: Afi Khan, Associate Producer: Faisal A. Qureshi, For Film4 (Head of Production): Tracey Josephs, For Film4 (Head of Business Affairs): Harry Dixon, For Film4 (Development Executive): Sam Lavender, For Film4 (Production Manager): Fiona Lamptey, For Optimum Releasing: Danny Perkins, Veronique Mousnier, For Warp Films: Robin Gutch, For Warp Films: Ally Gipps, For Warp Films: Libby Durdy, For Warp Films: Tommy Husband, Jen Kenwood, For Warp Films (Head of Production): Barry Ryan, For Warp Films (Finance Manager): Niall Shamma, Unit Manager: Jack Suckling, Unit Manager (Add'l Photography Unit): Vicky Chapman, Production Manager: Rebekah Wray-Rogers, Production Manager (Spanish Unit): Alex Sutherland, Prod'n Co-ord'r (Add'l Photography Unit): Nicola Morrow, Production Co-ordinator (Spanish Unit): Silvia Gomez, Production Accountant: Dan Hillsdon, Location Manager: Richard Knight, Locations Manager (2nd Unit): Richard Godfrey, Location Manager (Spanish Unit): Juan Fernandez, Post-production Supervisor: Emma Zee, Post-production Supervisor: Michelle Camp, 1st Assistant Director: Joe Geary, 2nd Assistant Director: Paul Cathie, 1st Assistant Director (2nd Unit): Tom White, 1st Asst Dir'r (Add'l Photography Unit): Simon Hedges, 2nd Asst Dir'r (Add'l Photography Unit): Samuel Donovan, Script Supervisor: Rebecca Rycroft, Casting Director: Des Hamilton, Casting Associate: Emma Stafford, Written by: Chris Morris, Written by: Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Additional Writing by: Simon Blackwell, Script Consultant: Iain Morris, Director of Photography: Lol Crawley, 2nd Unit Director of Photography: Simon Tindall, Marathon Unit Director of Photography: Erik Wilson, B Camera Operator: Simon Tindall, B Camera Operator (Marathon Unit): Ole Bratt Birkeland, Steadicam Operator: James Little-Hales, Steadicam Operator: John Taylor, Gaffer: Andy Lowe, Grip: Mark Tempest, Stills Photographer: Dean Rogers, Visual Effects: FrameStore, Special Effects Supervisor: Paul Gorrie, Special Effects (Spanish Unit): Juan Ramón Molina, Editor: Billy Sneddon, Assistant Editor: Matt Gray, Assistant Editor (Add'l Photo'y Unit): Jason Rayton, Production Designer: Dick Lunn, Art Director: Julie Ann Horan, Art Director (Add'l Photography Unit): Lisa Kenny, Set Decorator/Buyer: Duncan Windram-wheeler, Prop Master: Paul de Csernatony, Props Master (Spanish Unit): Chris Swan, Costume Designer: Charlotte Walter, Costume S'visor (Add'l Photography Unit): Hannah Walter, Costume: Doina Raducut, Costume: Carmen Cristea, Fraser Purfit, Hair/Make-up Designer: Vikki Lawson, Hair/Make-up Artist: Fiona Lobo-Cranston, Hair/Make-up: Hannah Booth, Hair/MU Artist (Add'l Photography Unit): Magi Vaughan, Digital Design/Titles (Framestore): Sharon Lock, Digital Intermediate: Technicolor Creative Services UK, Music Supervisor: Phil Canning, Sound Recordist: Malcolm Hirst, Sound Record't (Add'l Photography Unit): David Mitchell, Sound Maintenance: Jim Allen, Sound Maintenance (Additional Phot Unit): Rebecca Morgan, Boom Operator (Spanish Unit): Dani Muñoz, Re-recording Mixer: Nigel Heath, Stunt Co-ordinator: Gareth Milne, With special thanks to: Richard Ayoade, With special thanks to: Moazzam Begg, With special thanks to: Amelia Bullmore, With special thanks to: Brian Eno, With special thanks to: Lorraine Heggessey, With special thanks to: Armando Iannucci, With special thanks to: Roly Keating, With special thanks to: Kevin Lygo, With special thanks to: Stephen Merchant, With special thanks to: Jane Tranter, With special thanks to: Peter Baynham, With special thanks to: Layla Blackman, With special thanks to: Revolution Films, Matt Stone, Film made thanks to the support of: Stephen Davies, Film made thanks to the support of: William Heath, Film made thanks to the support of: Phillip Hylander, Film made thanks to the support of: Jonny Maitland, Film made thanks to the support of: Jono, Film made thanks to the support of: Tony Ryan, Lorne Somerville, Language Coach: Sophia Rashid, Armourer: Mark Shelley, Armourer (Spanish Unit): Antonio Molina, Animal Supplier/Co-ordinator: Sue Clark, Timber Tops, Unit Publicity: Charles McDonald
Cast (23)
Riz Ahmed (Omar), Arsher Ali (Hassan), Nigel Lindsay (Barry), Kayvan Novak (Waj), Adeel Akhtar (Faisal), Benedict Cumberbatch (negotiator), Julia Davis (Alice), Craig Parkinson (Matt), Preeya Kalidas (Sofia), Wasim Zakir (Ahmed), Mohammad Aqil (Mahmood), Karl Seth (Uncle Imran), Waleed Elgadi (Khalid), Alex Macqueen (Malcolm Storge MP), Shameem Ahmed (chairwoman), Jonny Maitland (newsreader), Marcus Garvey (marathon policeman), Darren Boyd, Kevin Eldon (sniper), Adil Mohamed Javed (Nabil), Toby Longworth (Heimlich man), Danny Ashok (phone shop assistant), Will Adamsdale (Alex)