Luna Papa

Plot summary

17-year-old Mamlakat lives with her father Safar and the disabled brother Nasreddin in a village in Uzbekistan. She is working in a small restaurant and dreams of becoming an actress. When a wandering theatre company enters the city, she misses the theatrical performance, but is seduced in the dark by the aircraft pilot Yassir, who pretends to be an actor and promises to help her become an actress, without knowing what is actually happening.

When she later discovers that she is pregnant, she has no idea how this happened and who the father is. Determined to preserve their honor, her eccentric family sets out on a journey in order to find the father of Mamlakat unborn child and to force him to marry her. During this journey with an old car loaded with chickens 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 the Mamlakat.

Cast

Filming location

The film was shot in the Karakum region in Tajikistan.

Awards

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