An allegorical comedy centered on two childhood sweethearts who seem destined for one another until the women of their isolated village, angered by male indifference toward the water ...
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| Max Mauff | ... | Temelko (as Maximilian Mauff) | |
| Kristýna Podzimková | ... | Aya (as Kristýna Malérová) | |
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Nino Chkheidze | ... | Grandmother |
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Ivane Ivantbelidze | ... | Shooting Gallery Guy |
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Ani Amiridze | ... | Shooting Gallery Guy's Daughter |
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Ilko Stefanovski | ... | Guri - Temelko's Father |
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Assun Planas | ... | Temelko's Mother |
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Otto Kuhnle | ... | Barber |
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Hijran Nasirova | ... | Barber's Wife |
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Hendrik Arnst | ... | Landlord |
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Olga Nefyodova | ... | Landlord's Wife |
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Adalat Ziyadkhanov | ... | Policeman (as Adalet Zyadhanov) |
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Matanat Atakishiyeva | ... | Policeman's Wife |
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Azelarab Kaghat | ... | Baker |
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Michaela Bandi | ... | Baker's Wife |
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An allegorical comedy centered on two childhood sweethearts who seem destined for one another until the women of their isolated village, angered by male indifference toward the water shortage, go on a sex strike that threatens the young couple's first night of love. Written by Sundance Film Festival
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sex strike | water shortage | childhood sweetheart | lingerie slip | strike |Genres:
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Country:
GermanyLanguage:
RussianRelease Date:
20 March 2008 (Germany) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Opening Weekend USA:
$1,441, 8 February 2009, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$39,078, 12 June 2009Company Credits
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Veit Helmer Filmproduktion,Südwestrundfunk (SWR),Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) See more »
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The characters in this film are hideous, dirty, obese, malodorous and unkempt. The hero is a handsome gangly teenage boy. He is in love with a pretty, tomboyish but cruel young lady. The elders behave like characters in a Benny Hill movie. They pantomime extreme sexual attraction to each other, and spend a lot of time in non-consensual sex. The village breaks out into Lysistrata like war between the sexes over the male refusal to repair the water supply. They shoot each other. They lay vicious traps of various kinds for each other. Everyone sleeps with rifles and sets them off by accident repeatedly. I did not find this amusing. These people were psychopaths. At the end, boy gets girl, though I was not too happy about this. She had repeatedly abused him so badly, I hoped for a new love for him.