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Luna Papa

Play trailer Poster for Luna Papa Released Sep 8, 1999 1h 46m Comedy Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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In a small village not far from Samarkand, seventeen-year-old Mamlakat dreams of becoming an actress. One moonlit night, she is seduced by a mysterious stranger who claims to be a friend of Tom Cruise. He then disappears, leaving Mamlakat pregnant. For her father Safar and brother Nasreddin restoring of the family honor is a question of pride, and they set out together to find the culprit.

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Dave S Papa Luna is an odd movie, to say the least, as it swings from comedy to drama to romance to strange mysticism without skipping a beat, sometimes with great success and sometimes, well…not so much. Chulpan Khamatova is fantastic as Mamlakat, a teenage girl living in a remote village who dreams of being an actress. When she becomes pregnant as the result of an odd encounter with a member of a visiting theatrical company, her father and disabled brother take her on a journey to find the guilty party in order to restore her reputation. Despite the fact that the film sometimes slips into silly and unnecessary slapstick and many of the secondary roles are just too over the top, Khamatova holds things together with her subtle charm and endearing naivete. The cinematography and locales are striking and the film is worth watching as long as the negative aspects can be ignored. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/05/23 Full Review Audience Member beautiful! lovely movie! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member A delicate cinematography with a bit of humour and fantasy. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member such a special beautiful movie!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Luna Papa tells the sotry of a teenage girl named Mamlakat (Khamatova) who loves theater. One night, missing the latest performance of the theater company, she ends up in the bushes under the moonlight with a mystery man. When she finally realizes she's pregnant and tells her father, they alongside her mentally-disabled brother go on to look for the father. What would actually be a very dramatic situation, ends up being kind of a magical and very charming story - with voice-overs from the unborn baby -with some high tension moments, but with loads of humor. If information on line is correct, Chulpan Khamatova is 20-something while shooting this movie, but she actually looks like a teen. Amazing. Watch out from falling cows. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member well, go ahead and peg me a square head but the only thing that really appealed to me was the Tadzjikistan scenery =/ - guess my filter is way to sensitive when it comes to all this burlesque, slapstick & "fantastical realism", but I appreciate the scenography & editing ... for interview with the director as well as lyrical reveiw in german: http://www.kinofenster.de/filmeundthemen/archivmonatsausgaben/kf0007/ich_trage_viele_kulturen_in_mir/ Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis In a small village not far from Samarkand, seventeen-year-old Mamlakat dreams of becoming an actress. One moonlit night, she is seduced by a mysterious stranger who claims to be a friend of Tom Cruise. He then disappears, leaving Mamlakat pregnant. For her father Safar and brother Nasreddin restoring of the family honor is a question of pride, and they set out together to find the culprit.
Director
Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov
Producer
Philippe Avril, Karl Baumgartner, Thomas Koerfer, Heinz Stussak, Igor Tolstunov
Screenwriter
Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov, Irakli Kvirikadze
Production Co
VISS, Les Films de L'Observatoire, Pandora Filmproduktion GmbH, NTV-PROFIT, Prisma Film, Euro Space Inc., Tajik Filmstudio, Thomas Koerfer Film
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
Russian
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 8, 1999, Original
Box Office (Gross USA)
$13.9K
Runtime
1h 46m
Sound Mix
Dolby SR, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Surround
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.66:1)