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Luna Papa

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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.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1999-09-08

Runtime: 103 mins

Director: Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov

Spoken language: Pусский,

Genres: Drama, Comedy

Original title: Luna Papa

Production Companies: 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

Production Countries: Tajikistan, Austria, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Switzerland, Uzbekistan

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