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Luna Papa (1999)
The unborn child of Mamlakat is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a travelling troupe, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise, and gets her pregnant. She tries to abort, but her father and brother become determined to find the seducer, setting in motion a cascade of comic adventures.
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The unborn child of Mamlakat is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a travelling troupe, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise, and gets her pregnant. She tries to abort, but her father and brother become determined to find the seducer, setting in motion a cascade of comic adventures.
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Genre:Drama, Comedy
Written By:Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov, Irakli Kvirikadze
In Theaters:9/8/1999
Box Office:
Runtime:103 minutes
Studio:Les Films de L'Observatoire, Prisma Film, VISS, Thomas Koerfer Film, Tajikfilm, Pandora Film, Eurospace, Profit, Novoskop Film, ZDF/Arte, Schweizer Fernsehen DRS, Frenetic Films, Lona Studio, Berliner Filmförderung, Hessische Filmförderung, Filmförderungsanstalt, OFI, Wiener Filmfinanzierungsfonds, Eidgenössisches Department des Innern, Fondazione Monte Cinema Verità, Fonds Sud Cinéma, Ministère de la Culture, CNC, Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, La Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg
Cast
Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov
Director
Moritz Bleibtreu
Nasreddin
Chulpan Khamatova
Mamlakat
Ato Mukhamedzhanov
Safar
Merab Ninidze
Alik
Polina Raykina
Khabibula (voice)
Nikolay Fomenko
Yassir
Lola Mirzorakhimova
Zube
Sherali Abdulkajsov
Akbar
Dinmukhamet Akhimov
Gynecologist
Azalbek Nazriyev
Alisher Khamrayev
Aleftina Galiyeva
Dancer
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