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Bakhtyar KhudojnazarovBakhtyar Khudojnazarov is a film director, producer and screenwriter from Tajikistan. His most internationally famous film is the comedy Luna Papa . He won a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for his movie Kosh ba kosh ....
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In this hilariously surreal adventure through
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, the story of a young, simple Tajik girl is narrated by her unborn child. Mamlakat is an aspiring actress, daughter of an eccentric father, and sister to a mad brother, who falls for the lies of an actor in a theater company that passes through her village. After he promises to make her an actress because he knows
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, Mamlakat sleeps with the guy. He’s gone in the morning – but leaves behind undeniable proof of the night's events: Mamlakat is pregnant. Determined to protect their honor, her eccentric family set out on a journey in order to find the father. And we glimpse a fantastic central Asian reality, filled with small, unusual villages, falling-from-the-sky cattle and enormous flying bricks…
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- Chulpan Khamatova
Chulpan Nailevna Khamatova is a Russian film, theater and TV actress of Tatar origin. Her name, Chulpan, means "morning star" in Tatar.- Background :...
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- Moritz Bleibtreu
Moritz Bleibtreu is a German actor.Bleibtreu was born in Munich, the son of actors Monica Bleibtreu and Hans Brenner, and the great-grand-nephew of the actress Hedwig Bleibtreu.Bleibtreu grew up in Hamburg...
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- Ato Mukhamedzhanov -Safar
- Polina Rajkina -Khabibula (voice only)