Born Equal (2006)

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Born Equal is a television film produced for the BBC. Written and directed by Dominic Savage, it stars Colin Firth, Robert Carlyle, David Oyelowo, Anne-Marie Duff and Emilia Fox, and explores aspects of poverty, race, inequality, homelessness, immigration and class in modern Britain by following the stories – at times intertwining – of several people living in London.

Production

Since Born Equal was commissioned to mark the 45th anniversary of Ken Loach's Cathy Come Home, it started as a film about homelessness. But as the project developed, director Dominic Savage decided to broaden his focus and deal with social inequality: "I knew then that one of the issues I really wanted to deal with was the extremes of difference in people's lives – and, in a place like London, those extremes can be experienced within just a few s…

The film was neither scripted nor rehearsed: all the actors had to improvise on set, a method Dominic Savage considers "the most organic way of making a film but also the most risky (...)".

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