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Absurdistan is a film of genre Comedy directed by Veit Helmer released in USA on 20 january 2008 with Maximilian Mauff
Absurdistan (2008)
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Add to a movie listAbsurdistan is a 2008 German-French comedy film written and directed by Veit Helmer.
It formed part of the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. It was also entered into the 30th Moscow International Film Festival.
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The film is set in a remote and forgotten desert mountain village in the former Soviet Union, and chronicles a standoff between the sexes: the local women decide to withhold sex until their lazy men fix the pipeline that carries the village’s water supply. Young lovers Aya and Temelko are caught up in the argument and Temelko becomes determined to fix the pipeline so he can be with her.Actors
Maximilian Mauff
(Temelko)
Suzana Petričević
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