The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev

Documentary. 2016. 98 min. Directed by Tal Barda and Noam Pinchas.

In Tagik, Russian and Hebrew with English subtitles.

Rev up your Sunday morning with a lively Tajik beat! With the intensely talented and complicated Alaevs, music is the family business — a business where babies learn to drum before they learn to walk. They not only play and perform together. They live, cook and eat together, too. All is well until the benevolent, yet controlling patriarch, Allo “Papa” Alaev, has his authority challenged by younger generations.