Plot
The unborn child of Mamlakat (Khamatova) is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother (Bleibtreu) in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a traveling troupe, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise, and makes 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.
Written by
Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov, Irakli Kvirikadze
Directed by
Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov
Crew
Production Countries
Austria, Russia, Japan, Switzerland, Uzbekistan, Germany, Tajikistan, France
Production Companies
Eurospace, Pandora Film, Tajikfilm, Thomas Koerfer Film, VISS, Prisma Film, NTV-Profit, Les Films de L'Observatoire
Languages
Awards
13 wins & 8 nominations