Lost in Karastan

Lost in Karastan is a 2014 black comedy film directed by Ben Hopkins.^[2]

Lost in Karastan
British poster
Directed by	Ben Hopkins
Written by	Ben Hopkins Paweł Pawlikowski
Produced by	Daniel Zuta Mike Downey Sam Taylor Vladimir Katcharava Artem Vassiliev
Starring	Matthew Macfadyen MyAnna Buring Noah Taylor Ali Cook
Distributed by	Brandstorm Entertainment AG Film and Music Entertainment 20 Steps Production Metrafilms
Release date	23 August 2014 (2014-08-23) (WFF)
Running time	96 minutes
Countries	Germany United Kingdom Georgia France
Languages	English Russian Turkish
Box office	$ 1 641[1]

Plot

Lost in Karastan^[3] is a gentle black comedy about a confused British director, Emil, who is hired to direct a production in the Caucasus region. The country, Autonomous Republic of Karastan, is led by an eccentric corrupt but benign dictator. There Emil embarks on one of the wildest journeys of his already diverse career.^[4]

Cast

• Matthew Macfadyen as Emil Forester
• MyAnna Buring as Chulpan
• Noah Taylor as Xan Butler
• Ali Cook as Daniel
• Ümit Ünal as Saro
• Richard Van Weyden as President Abashiliev
• Vedat Erincin as Mountain Man
• María Fernández Ache as Marian
• Amiran Katchibaia as Agdur
• Leo Antadze as Igor
• Lasha Ramishvili as Ruslan
• Dato Velijanashvili as Shadow

Release

Lost in Karastan^[5][6] premiered in the UK^[7] as the opening film of the London Comedy Film Festival^[8][9] (LOCO)^[10] on 22 January 2015.^[11]

Awards

At Filmfest Hamburg,^[12] the film won the 'Hamburg Producers Awards'^[13] for the best 'European Cinema Co-production' and 'German-European Cinematic Production',^[14] presented to Daniel Zuta and Vladimer Katcharava.

Ben Hopkins was nominated for the 'Grand Prix des Amériques' award at the Montréal World Film Festival^[15] in 2014.^[16]