THE SWIMMERS
synopsis
A story of the miraculous journey made by swimming sisters Yusra and Sarah Mardini who fled as refugees from war-torn Syria all the way to the 2016 Rio Olympics.
| international title: | The Swimmers |
| original title: | The Swimmers |
| country: | United Kingdom, United States |
| year: | 2022 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Sally El Hosaini |
| film run: | 134' |
| screenplay: | Jack Thorne, Sally El Hosaini |
| cast: | Matthias Schweighöfer, Ali Suliman, James Krishna Floyd, Carlotta De Gregori, Ahmed Malek, Manal Issa, Alfredo Tavares, Dritan Kastrati, Roderick Hill, Daniel Eghan |
| cinematography by: | Christopher Ross |
| film editing: | Iain Kitching |
| art director: | Patrick Rolfe |
| costumes designer: | Molly Emma Rowe |
| music: | Steven Price |
| producer: | Tim Bevan, Tim Cole, Eric Fellner, Ali Jaafar |
| executive producer: | Tilly Coulson, Stephen Daldry, Katherine Pomfret |
| line producer: | Jeremy Burnage, Zeynep Santiroglu |
| production: | Working Title Films |
| distributor: | Netflix |
