The Body Beautiful

The Body Beautiful
1991Drama23 mins
★★★★★

Plot

This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial a... read more

  • Ngozi Onwurah

    Director

  • Ngozi Onwurah

    Writer

  • Peter Collis

    Director of Photography

  • Liz Webber

    Editor

  • Madge Onwurah

    Narrator (voice) Mother/Herself

  • Rosie Rowell

    Narrator (voice) Daughter

  • Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre

    The Daughter (as Sian Martin)

  • Brian Bovell

    Young Man

  • Maureen Douglass

    Young Mother

  • Valentine Nonyela

    Peter

  • Louis Altinson

  • Linda Dobson

  • Richard Gray

  • Haley McKay

  • Michael McKay

  • Nina McKay

  • Saffron Burrows

    Model

  • Nadja Carr

    Model

  • Ann Parks

    Model

  • Jane Yeomans

    Model

  • Novlet

    Model

    • Runtime

    23 minutes

    Released

    1991-10-03

    Languages

    English

    Countries

    United Kingdom

    Studios

    BFI

    Sound

  • Jonathon Hirst

    Original Music Composer

  • Anthony Quigley

    Original Music Composer

    • Updated

    16 days ago

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