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Director: | Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne |
Studio: | Les Films du Fleuve |
Writer: | Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne |
IMDb Rating: | 7.1 (3,559 votes) |
Awards: | 2 wins & 3 nominations |
Summary: Sokol and Lorna, two Albanian emigrants in Belgium, dream of leaving their dreary jobs to set up a snack bar. They need money, and a permanent resident status. Claudy is a junkie - he needs money to satisfy his addiction. Andrei, the cigarette smuggler, must hold up for a while outside Russia; he has loads of money. Fabio, the Italian taxi driver and aspiring gang boss, elaborates a clever scheme: he will pay Claudy to marry Lorna so that she acquires a Belgian citizenship. Then she is to re-marry Andrei, who will in this way obtain the coveted EU passport - and pay a hefty price to Fabio and Lorna for the service. Like all plans, this one will not survive the contact with reality.
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