7.4
To Get to Heaven First, You Have to Die (2006)
October 4, 20061h 35mTG
5.0
10 votes
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
Director
Jamshed UsmonovWriter
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
Russian
Budget
N/A
Revenue
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Production Companies
Elzévir FilmsPandora FilmSAGA ProductionCiné ManufactureSouth BridgeMEDIA Programme of the European Union
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4.0<i>To Get to Heaven...</i> (2006) is a film by Jamshed Usmonov set in the director's native Tajikistan. Kamal (Khurshed Golibekov) is a young man who has recently married, but he suffers from impotence and has been unable to consummate his marriage. After three months, he visits a doctor and then undertakes to learn the art of love from some older woman in the capital. The first half of the film has him stalking various women around Dushanbe. This odyssey in an American film would probably have been portrayed in a goofy underdog fashion, but Kamal's attempts are creepy, though we do feel his p…
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