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Luna Papa
Directed byBakhtyar Khudojnazarov
Screenplay byBakhtyar Khudojnazarov
Irakli Kvirikadze
Produced byHeinz Stussak
Igor Tolstunow
Thomas Koerfer
Karl Baumgartner
Philippe Avril
StarringChulpan Khamatova
Moritz Bleibtreu
Nikolay Fomenko
Music byDaler Nazarov
Production
companies
Release date
  • 1999 (1999)
Running time
109 minutes
CountriesRussia
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
Germany
Austria
France
LanguageRussian


Luna Papa (Russian: Лунный папа) is a 1999 movie by Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov with collaboration from Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Germany, Austria and France

Plot summary

17-year-old Mamlakat lives with her father Safar and the disabled brother Nasreddin in a village in Uzbekistan. She is working in a small restaurant and dreams of becoming an actress. When a wandering theatre company enters the city, she misses the theatrical performance, but is seduced in the dark by the aircraft pilot Yassir, who pretends to be an actor and promises to help her become an actress, without knowing what is actually happening.

When she later discovers that she is pregnant, she has no idea how this happened and who the father is. Determined to preserve their honor, her eccentric family sets out on a journey in order to find the father of Mamlakat unborn child and to force him to marry her. During this journey with an old car loaded with chickens through Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, the family meets various bandits and the charming impostor Alik, who poses as the seducer in the dark, and falls in love with the Mamlakat.

Cast

Filming location

The film was shot in the Karakum region in Tajikistan.[1]

Awards

At the 2000 Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards the picture was awarded the prizes for Best Film and Best Director (Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov).[2]

References

  1. ^ "PANDORA FILM Produktion - LUNA PAPA". Retrieved 2017-05-28.
  2. ^ "2000". Russian Guild of Film Critics.

See also