Sunday, March 22, 2015
12:00 AM
Rackham Amphitheatre
Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov, director. In Russian and Tajik with English subtitles (107 min., 2000).
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.
Free and open to the public. Sponsors: ISP, CREES.
