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Bianco e Nero (White and Black), is directed by Cristina Comencini. and has grossed £3m in six weeks - a hefty return for an Italian film. The plot: Carlo works for a Rome-based charity, and Nadine, works for the Senegalese embassy. They meet and fall in love and leave their respective spouses, to a backdrop of family and friends all counseling against 'mixed marriage'. The last count of marriages in Italy by ethnicity showed about 30,000 weddings in 2004 involved a bride and groom of different races, nearly one in 10 of all marriages in "supposedly" racist Italy and triple the figure for 1992.