Mamay
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Mamay draws on traditional Ukranian and Tatar folktales for its Romeo and Juliet-like love story and parable about chivalry and the struggle for freedom. Hundreds of years ago, in the wild steppes of Crimea that form an uneasy border between East and West, Europe and Asia, nomad and farmer, the proud Cossack Mamay falls in love with the Tatar beauty Omai. The title, like the storyline, holds a variety of different meanings taken from different cultures. In Turkic languages, it means "no one," but it was also the name of a famous Mongol conqueror, the great grandson of Ghengis-Khan. In Persian legends, mamay literally means "the spirit of the steppes. "
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Andrii Bilous
Mamay
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Viktoria Spesivtseva
Tatar woman
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Sergey Mikhalchuk
Nazl Sejtablaeva
Little Tatar girl
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Anna Chmil
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Serhii Romaniuk
Eldest brother
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Middle brother
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Oles Sanin Director · Serhiy Mykhalchuk Cinematographer Natalia Akayomova Editor
Budget $200K · United States release January 15, 2004 · Produced in Ukraine
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Budget
$200,000
Production
Dovzhenko Film Studios
Production
Ukraine
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Languages
Original title
Мамай
Original language
Ukrainian
Spoken on screen
Tatar · Ukrainian
Release dates
United Kingdom · February 19, 2003
Ukraine · February 19, 2003
Theatrical
United States · January 15, 2004
Palm Springs International Film Festival
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