Luna Papa (Russian: Лунный папа) is a 1999 movie by Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov with collaboration from Russia, Tajikistan, Germany, Austria and France^[1]

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Luna Papa
Directed by	Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov
Screenplay by	Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov Irakli Kvirikadze
Produced by	Heinz Stussak Igor Tolstunow Thomas Koerfer Karl Baumgartner Philippe Avril
Starring	Chulpan Khamatova Moritz Bleibtreu Nikolay Fomenko
Music by	Daler Nazarov
Production companies	Pandora Film Paradis Films
Release date	1999 (1999)
Running time	109 minutes
Countries	Russia Tajikistan Uzbekistan Germany Austria France
Language	Russian

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17-year-old Mamlakat lives with her father Safar, who raises rabbits, and mentally disabled brother Nasreddin in an unpaved lakeside village in Tajikistan. She works in a restaurant and dreams of becoming an actress. A travelling theatre company visits the nearby city but she misses the performance and wanders for a while. She chances upon an aircraft pilot, Yassir, who pretends to be an actor and a friend of a famous American actor. He promises to help her become an actress, but instead seduces her while she is in a dream-like fantasy, leaving the village immediately afterwards.

When she discovers that she is pregnant, she has no idea how this happened and who the father is. Determined to preserve her and their honour, her eccentric family sets out on a comic journey in order to find the unborn child's father and to force him to marry her. During this journey - in an old car loaded with rabbits - they travel 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 Mamlakat.

• Chulpan Khamatova as Mamlakat
• Moritz Bleibtreu as Nasreddin
• Ato Mukhamedzhanov as Safar
• Merab Ninidze as Alik
• Polina Rajkina as Khabibula (voice only)
• Nikolay Fomenko as Yassir
• Dinmukhamet Akhimov as the gynaecologist
• Sherali Abdulkajsov as Akbar

The film was shot in Kairakum, in north-western Tajikistan.^[2]

The film received the main prize "Golden Rose" at Kinotavr in 2000.^[3]

At the 2000 Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards the picture was awarded the prizes for Best Film and Best Director (Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov).^[4][5]

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