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Vijai and I

Director(s):	Sam Garbarski
Producer(s):	SAMSA FILM Entre Chien et Loup (Be), Pandora (De), RTBF (Be)
Script:	Philippe Blasband, Matthew Robbins, Sam Garbarski
Year:	2013
Form:	FICTION - Feature film
Genre:	Comedy
Original version:	English
Running time:	100'
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Synopsis

Wilhelm Wilder (Bill) is a talented actor stuck on a New York City children’s TV show where he portrays Bad Luck Bunny, a hapless green rabbit. Feeling a failure, he bears his fate with touching self-irony, but grows sulky and petulant when he thinks that his wife, daughter and all his friends have forgotten his 40th birthday. In the confusion following a road accident, everyone believes he is dead. Instead of rectifying the situation, he decides to fulfill a fantasy and attend his own funeral. Here he will learn what everyone really thinks of him. With the aid of his best friend Rad, an Indian restaurant-owner, Bill becomes Vijay Singh, a handsome and gentlemanly Sikh, complete with turban and beard. On this memorable occasion and in the days that follow, Vijay is surprised to learn some embarrassing truths about Bill. And on top of it, his newly-widowed, beautiful wife Julia takes an unseemly, romantic interest in this elegant, sexy stranger. Bill confronts a unique problem: everyone likes Vijay, and most of all, he likes Vijay, more than he ever liked himself.

Casting

Moritz Bleibtreu
Patricia Arquette
Danny Pudi
Michael Imperioli
Catherine Missal

Crew

Sound : Carlo Thoss
Make-up : Claudine Moureaud
Set design : Véronique Sacrez
1st AD : Jim Probyn
Location manager : Patrick Blocman
Production manager : Brigitte Kerger
Dop: Alain Duplantier
Set decorators: Lieven Base
Frédéric Delrue
Thierry van Cappellen

Nominations & Awards

Locarno Festival 2013, “Piazza Grande”

International sales

The Match Factory

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