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To Get to Heaven First, You Have to Die

To Get to Heaven First, You Have to Die

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To Get to Heaven First, You Have to Die

2006

1h 35m

5.0(10 votes)

Drama

Overview

Twenty-year-old Kamal has been married for a few months but his wife is still a virgin. Learning that there is nothing physically wrong with him after visiting a doctor, Kamal sets off to town to search for another woman. The city is full of them but Kamal is still unable to meet anyone, until a chance encounter on a bus. But it looks as if this accidental meeting will take Kamal much farther than he was prepared to go… By the director of ‘Angel on the Right’. —Celluloid Dreams

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Production Companies

Elzévir Films

Pandora Film

MEDIA Programme of the European Union

Celluloid Dreams

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Khurshed Golibekov

Kamal

Dinara Drukarova

Dinara Drukarova

Vera

Maruf Pulodzoda

Vera's husband

Djonibek Mourodov

Said Shah

Shakhnosa Khodjaeva

Amie Said Shah

Davron Alimatov

Fatkhullo Abdulloev

Fatkhullo Abdulloev

Natalia Fedotova

Khairi Burieva

Munisa Ganieva

Creative team

Directed by: Jamshed Usmonov
Written by: Jamshed Usmonov
Produced by: Denis Carot
Marie Masmonteil

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