It charts the breakdown of a working class family when the teenage daughter befriends a refugee girl. Helen has been married to Paul for 25 years. They live a monotonous and frozen ...
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Title: Gypo (2005)
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4 wins & 2 nominations.
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| Pauline McLynn | ... | Helen | |
| Chloe Sirene | ... | Tasha | |
| Paul McGann | ... | Paul | |
| Rula Lenska | ... | Irina | |
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Tamzin Dunstone | ... | Kelly |
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Barry Latchford | ... | Jimmy |
| Freddie Connor | ... | Tasha's Husband | |
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Tom Stuart | ... | Darren |
| Olegar Fedoro | ... | Tasha's Father | |
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Sean Wilton | ... | Art Tutor |
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Angelica O'Reilly | ... | Prostitute |
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Rebecca Clow | ... | Terminal Hostess |
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Majid Iqbal | ... | Illegal Worker |
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Ashley McGuire | ... | Penny |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Josef Altin | ... | Michael | |
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It charts the breakdown of a working class family when the teenage daughter befriends a refugee girl. Helen has been married to Paul for 25 years. They live a monotonous and frozen existence. Helen is desperate, damaged, and looking for change. Paul - bitter, hypocritical and bigoted, sick and tired of being in the poverty trap - is on the brink of a breakdown. His biggest fear is change. Into their lives comes Tasha, a Romany Czech refugee, awaiting her British passport and her chance for freedom - a concept taken for granted by all those around her. Told in three revelatory narratives, each from a particular character's point of view, reveals how the disintegration of an ordinary working class family finally comes to a head when unexpected emotions are unleashed. Written by Production Office
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20 October 2006 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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£300,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Music & Lyrics by Christiane Bjørg Nielsen (as Christiane Bjørg-Nielsen)
Performed by Christiane Bjørg Nielsen (as Christiane Bjørg-Nielsen)
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Won the Jury prize at the San Francisco film festival (2005) i.e. Levi's(r) First Feature Award See more »Crazy Credits
Santa is credited "as himself". See more »Soundtracks
Rose FingersMusic & Lyrics by Christiane Bjørg Nielsen (as Christiane Bjørg-Nielsen)
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Gypo is an interesting British film, once again proving good stuff doesn't have to come from Hollywood. A typical(?) British family lives a life of lies and deals with things as best they can until they meet a Chec mother and daughter who change their world. Gypo is apparently Brit slang for Gypsy/immigrants. This film proves that people all over the world are intolerant of others and are hypocrites. A couple of unexpected story swings made it a little more refreshing than the often mundane screen depiction of the disintegration of a family. Since the film took the same story from several points of view, it allowed you to better understand the characters background. I was glad that they really segregated the stories, otherwise it would have been confusing. All in all a good dramatic film.