LUNA PAPA
SYNOPSIS
Mamlakat becomes pregant by a mysterical stranger. Now her father Safar and brother Nasreddin set off with Mamlakat to find the person responsible. LUNA PAPA is a fantastic and tragigcomic journey through the wild landscapes of Central Asia where tradition and superstition are juxtaposted with the chaos of the postmodern world.
| DIRECTOR | Bakhtiar Khudojnazarov |
| YEAR | 1999 |
| STATUS | completed |
| FESTIVALS AWARDS | Venice 1999 Toronto 1999 Vienna 1999 Hof 1999 Competition Tokyo 1999 (BEST ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION AWARD) Nantes Festival 1999 (LE GRAND PRIX & LE PRIX DU JEUNE PUBLIC) Sundance 2000 official oscar entry "Foreign Language Film" |
| CAST | Chulpan Khamatova Moritz Bleibtreu Merab Ninidze Ato Mukhamedshanov Nikolai Fomenko |
| CO PRODUCTION WITH | Pandora Film/ Prisma Film in co-production with Thoams Koerfer Film NTV-PROFIT Les Films de l'Observatoire Eurospace Viss Tadjik Filmstudio in association with Novoskop Film ZDF/Arte Fernsehen DRS Frenetic Films Lona Studio |
| SUPPORTED BY | Eurimages Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg Hessische Filmförderung Filmförderungsanstalt Österreichisches Filminstitut Wiener Filmfinanzierungsfonds Eidgenössisches Department des Innern Fondation Montecinemaveritá Fonds Sud Cinema Ministére de la Culture and Ministere des affaires étrangéres Communauté urbaine de Strasbourg |
| WORLD SALES | Bavaria Film International |
| GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR | Kinowelt/Arthaus |
| LENGTH | 107 min. |
| FORMAT | colour 35mm 1:1.66 Dolby SRD |
| SHOOTING LOCATION | Kairakum (Tadjikistan) |
| ORIGINAL LANGUAGE | Russian, Farsi |
| PRODUCERS | Karl Baumgartner (producer) Heinz Stussak (producer) Igor Tolstounov (producer) Thomas Koerfer (producer) Philippe Avril (producer) Kenzo Horikoshi/Christa Saredi/Jan Schütte (co-producer) Christoph Friedel/Michael Seeber Sergei Kozlov (executive producer) Yevgenij Gindilis (associate producer) Raimond Goebel (line producer) Rusht Rushtov (line producer |
| WRITERS | Irakli Kwirikadze |
| CASTING | |
| DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY | Martin Gschlacht, Dusan Joksimovic, Rostislav Pirumov, Rali Ralchev |
| PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT | Ursula Wolschlager Claudia Steffen |
| EDITING | Kirk Von Heflin Evi Romen |
| MUSIC | Daler Nasarov |
| SOUND | Rustam Akhadov |
| ART DIRECTION | Negmat Dzhuraev |
| COSTUMES | Zebo Nasirova |
| MAKE UP HAIR | Jakob Peier |
| SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE | yes |
| DVD VIDEO AVAILABLE | yes |
| LINKS | www.prisma-wien.at/lLUNAPAPA |
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