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IZZAT

By Ulrik Imtiaz ROLFSEN

Drama - Completed 2005

- Year of production
- 2005
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- NORWAY
- Languages
- NORWEGIAN
- Director(s)
- Ulrik Imtiaz ROLFSEN
- Writer(s)
- Leon BASHIR, Ulrik Imtiaz ROLFSEN
- Cast
- Emil MARWA, Khawar SADIQ, Assd SIDDIQUE, Daud MIRZA, Elyas MOHAMMED, Leon BASHIR, Amir MALIK, Harald LÖNNBRO
- Producer(s)
- John M JACOBSEN (Filmkameratene), Sveinung GOLIMO (Filmkameratene)
- Synopsis
- A Goodfellas-like story follows Wasim and his youth gang years in the 80s to his young adult years in the 90s.
  The film deals with the double standards in the tough Pakistani gang environment in Norway, and relates directly to the diffuiculty of being raised in muslim immigrant ghettos in Western countries, with the troubles of gaining access to the society.
  IZZAT means honour in Urdu.