SYNOPSIS
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.
CAST
Chulpan Khamatova
Moritz Bleibtreu
Ato Mukhamedzhanov
Merab Ninidze
Nikolai Fomenko
Lola Mirzorakhimova
CREW
Director Bakhtiar Khudojnazarov
Screenplay Irakli Kwirikadze, Bakhtiar Khudojnazarov
DoP Martin Gschlacht, Dusan Joksimovic, Rostislav Pirumov, Rali Raltschev
Production Design Negmat Jouraiev
Editing Kirk von Heflin, Evi Romen
Music Michael Palm
Costume Design Zebo Nasirova
Make-up Artist Jakob John Peier
Producers Karl Baumgartner, Heinz Stussak