Absurdistan (film)

Absurdistan is a 2008 GermanFrench comedy film written and directed by Veit Helmer.

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 a sex strike until their lazy men fix the pipeline that carries the villages 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.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 Commissions MEDIA New Talent programme. Although the film was made on a low budget, Helmer was able to gather a cast ofactors fromdifferent countries. Most of Absurdistan was filmed on location in Lahc, Ismailli, Azerbaijan over a nineweek period in summer 2006. As there are no hotels in the village, most of the 90 member crew had to stay with villagers. Additional scenes were filmed in ayqaraqoyunlu, Shaki and Tbilisi. ........

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