Rami og Julie

Alternative title: Rami and Juliet Rami et Juliet
Synopsis: Feature film. Rami is a Palestianian refugee living in contemporary Copenhagen. He meets Julie, a woman at a petrol station, who shelters him when he flees Frank and his gang of racist thugs. Rami leaves Julie’s protection temporarily to smuggle his refugee cousin, a terrorist, into Denmark. At a party Julie discovers that Frank knows about her love for Rami and Frank and his men assault her. While escorting his cousin, Rami is shot. Julie goes to the airport but only the cousin arrives. The film includes a launderette manager who acts as a Chorus figure giving Shakespeare quotations from Romeo and Juliet that provide commentary on the action.
Language: Danish
Country: Denmark; France
Medium: Film
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 1988
Duration: 113 mins

Director

Erik Clausen

Producer

Marianne Christensen

Cinematographer

Marten Bruus

Screenplay

Erik Clausen; Fayez Kanafani

Art Direction

Thorkil Slebsager

Cast

Notes: The video release (no longer available) ran 90 minutes.
Reviews: Lanier, Douglas ‘Film Spin-Offs and Citations’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares: an Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. (p. 285, entry 1212).

British Universities Film & Video Council