Luna papa

Movie
Original title	Luna papa
Country of production	Austria , Germany , Russia , Switzerland
original language	Russian
Publishing year	1999
length	109 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Bakhtiyor Khudoinazarov
script	Bakhtiyor Khudoinazarov , Irakli Kvirikadze
production	Heinz Stussak , Igor Tolstunow , Thomas Koerfer , Karl Baumgartner , Philippe Avril
music	Daler Nazarow
camera	Martin Gschlacht , Rotislaw Pirumow , Dusan Joksimovic , Rali Raltschew
cut	Peter R. Adam
occupation
	Tschulpan Chamatowa as Mumlakat; Moritz Bleibtreu as Nasreddin; Ato Muchamedschanow as Safar Muradow; Merab Ninidze as Alik; Polina Rajkina as Chabibula; Nikolai Fomenko as Yassir; Lola Mirzorachimowa as Sube; Sherali Abdulkayasow as Akbar; Dinmuchammed Achimov as a gynecologist; Asalbek Nasrijew as Alischer Chamrajew;

The film Luna Papa ( Russian Лунный папа , Lunnyj Papa ) is an international tragic comedy from 1999. Directed by Bakhtijor Khudoinasarov ; the main roles were played by Tschulpan Chamatowa , Ato Muchamedschanow and Moritz Bleibtreu .

action

The 17-year-old Mamlakat lives with her father Safar and the disabled brother Nasreddin in a village in Uzbekistan . She dreams of becoming an actress. When a touring theater comes to town, she sees her chance. Mamlakat misses the theater performance, but is seduced that same night in the dark by the pilot Yassir, who pretends to be an actor, without knowing what is actually happening. When she later finds out that she is pregnant, she does not know where and who the father is.

Mamlakat embarks on an adventurous journey to determine the identity of her child's father and to force him to marry her. Father and brother insist on accompanying her so that her name and honor may be saved. On the journey through Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan in an old car full of chickens, the family meets various bandits and the charming marriage swindler Alik, who pretends to be the seducer in the dark and falls in love with Mamlakat.

Reviews

Jan Distelmayer: “At first glance, Luna Papa, a kind of adolescence fairy tale from Central Asia, and the Hollywood drama Magnolia, which was produced at the same time, separate worlds in every respect, and yet they are miraculously connected to one another through the laconic onslaught of the fantastic . […] What develops from now on has so much speed, imagination, absurd humor and loving accuracy, as if Emir Kusturica, Monty Python and Václav Vorlicek (three hazelnuts for Cinderella, how should you drown Dr. Mracek?) Had gotten together to create a new fairy tale from the Arabian Nights. [...] The utopia, the impossible or in other words: the cinema comes into effect in both films [Magnolia, note] when everything seems to be at an end. "

The film screened in numerous European countries, where it reached a total of around 600,000 visitors - most of them in Germany, where 175,000 visitors saw the film, as well as in France and Italy, where more than 125,000 people each visited the film. A little more than 20,000 people saw the film in Austria and Switzerland. No visitor numbers are known from the co-producing country Russia.

Awards

Bakhtijor Chudoinasarow won the Golden Montgolfiere Prize of the Nantes Three Continents Festival and the Best Artistic Contribution Award of the Tokyo International Film Festival in 1999, as well as the Golden Prometheus of the Tbilisi International Film Festival and the Jury Prize of the Bergen International Film Festival in 2000 . He was nominated for the Golden Spike of the Valladolid International Film Festival in 2000.

The film won the Golden Aries of the Russian Guild of Film Critics for Best Picture in 2000 . Chudojnasarow won two prizes at the Brussels International Film Festival in 2000 and was nominated for a third. Luna Papa was also awarded the Golden Rose at the Kinotawr Festival 2000 in Sochi .

In 2001, Khudoinazarov won the Russian Nika Film Prize for his directing . Leading actress Tschulpan Khamatova, the film as best film , the script and the sound were nominated for the same award.

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

production

Most of the film was shot in and around the Tajik city of Khujand . Among other things, the village in which the action begins was specially built for the film south of the nearby Kairakkum reservoir . In addition, it was filmed in the center and in the Arbob Palace a few kilometers outside the city.