Absurdistan

Absurdistan (2008)

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.

Date of release
2008-01-20
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (34)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Director
Veit Helmer

Casting

Interesting facts

Absurdistan is a 2008 German-Azerbaijan comedy film written and directed by Veit Helmer.

Production

Helmer started writing the script after reading a 2001 newspaper account of women in the Turkish village of Sirt refusing to accommodate their husbands until they fixed a broken pipeline. He collaborated with Gordan Mihic and Zaza Buadze on the screenplay, receiving funding from Sources2, the Mediterranean Film Institute and the European Commission's MEDIA New Talent programme.

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