Jan loves Jasmin, but she has been promised to a Pakistani nephew. Under the cover of writing a thesis on immigrant stores, Jan gets a job in the store of Jasmin's father where he tries to work on the father's attitude towards mixed marriages.
Acting
Iram Haq's guarded warmth against Teigen's desperate optimism.
Writing
Thesis-as-plot-device is genuinely clever narrative scaffolding.
Director
Khalid Hussain
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of few Norwegian-Pakistani co-productions from this era, made when Iram Haq was still primarily acting before her acclaimed directorial work in What Will People Say.
Khalid Hussain directed this between his documentary work and his later focus on children's literature; the thesis framing was reportedly inspired by real academic observations of Oslo immigrant businesses.
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