Director: Julian Jarrold
Script: Simon Burke, Zadie Smith (novel)
Photography: David Odd
Editor: Andrew Hulme
Music: Adrian Johnston
Sound: Rudi Buckle, James Bain
Casting: Maureen Duff, Gail Stevens
Principal Cast: Om Puri, Philip Davis, Geraldine James, Robert Brathurst, Christopher Simpson, Sarah Ozeke, San Shella, Steve Sweeney, Russell Brand
Producer: Nicolas Brown
Executive Producer WGBH: Rebecca Eaton
Executive Producers: George Faber, Suzan Harrison, Charles Pattinson
Production: Company Pictures in co-production with WGBH & ABC Australia for Channel 4
Distribution: Channel 4 International
Tel: 0044 207 306 444 4
Fax: 0044 207 306 836 4
First Broadcast: 17.09.02, 22.00, Channel 4, 2.2 mill. / 14% Audience Share
Selected Filmography Julian Jarrold: Cracker (Episode “The Big Crunch”), 1993; Fighting for Gemma, 1993; Some Kind of Life, 1995; Touching Evil, 1997; Great Expectations, 1999; All the King’s Men, 1999; Never Never, 2000; Crime and Punishment, 2002.
Though life in a multicultural society - whether in London, Dortmund or New York - has been a reality for decades, film and television has only recently discovered it as a subject with mass appeal (“Solino”, “My Big Fat Greek
Wedding”). In a free adaptation of Zadie Smith’s mega-bestseller, director Julian Jarrold (“Never Never”) journeys at high speed across 30 years of British emigrant subculture, following the fatefully entwined stories of Archie Smith, typical white working-class Brit, Clara, Jamaican with a thirst for life, and traditionally orientated Bangladeshi Samad Iqbal. Jarrold manages to perfectly translate the tone of the book - a mix of sentiment and satire - into film images. Sexy, stylish and wonderfully quirky: “White Teeth” is Britpop for the gogglebox.