To Get to Heaven First, You Have to Die

To Get to Heaven First, You Have to Die

2006 · 95 min · ★ 5.0 · Drama

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

Directed by Jamshed Usmonov · Written by Jamshed Usmonov

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