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original title:
Le ferie di Licu
directed by:
cast:
Md Moazzem Hossain, Fancy Khanam, Giulia Di Quilio
screenplay:
editing:
music:
producer:
production:
country:
Italy
year:
2006
film run:
93'
format:
DV Cam/35mm - colour
release date:
04/05/2007
festivals & awards:
Licu, a 27 year-old Muslim born in Bangladesh, has lived in Rome for six years, sharing a rented home with eight other people. His immigrant status only recently legalised, he works 12-hour days: in a textile-factory warehouse in the morning and as a grocery-store cashier in the evening. Licu, who wears his hair like Elvis, buys designer shirts and roots for the Rome soccer team, is thoroughly integrated. His mother sends him a photo of Fancy, the 18 year-old girl his family has chosen as his bride. Licu can get only four weeks of unpaid vacation to go to Bangladesh and organise his wedding with a complete stranger. But when he arrives, the negotiations between the families of the bride and the groom hit a snag. Bangladesh is submerged under one of the worst floods in the last fifty years.