Tulpan (2008)

Original title

Тюльпан

Directed by

Sergey Dvortsevoy

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

Kazakhstan, Germany, Russia, Switzerland

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

12

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 54 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man returns to the Kazakh steppe to become a shepherd. He wants to marry a local woman named Tulpan, but she refuses to meet him.

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What happens

Tulpan (Russian: Тюльпан, lit. 'The Tulip') is a 2008 Kazakh drama film. It was directed by Sergey Dvortsevoy and distributed by Zeitgeist Films. Tulpan was Kazakhstan's 2009 Academy Awards official submission to Foreign Language Film category, but it didn't make the final shortlist. It won the award for Best Film at the 2nd Asia Pacific Screen Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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