It sounds like a joke, but the story told in the film 'A Chinese Take-Away', about a cow falling from the sky and killed a girl, the new bride of a Russian young man, is inspired by a true life story. The fiction, outlandish though it might be, continues imitating the reality, and the reality reconstructed says that a Chinese young man (Russian in the true story) saw his new bride killed in the way most like a hallucination. A cow fell from the sky, literally, and landed on the girl while the two of them were murmuring love to each other.
The Argentinian producer, Sebastian Borensztein, turned a big round converting it into a comedy between tenderness (almost too sugary) and surrealism, and left the interpretation to Darin, the actor that plays the grouchy ironmonger who made friends with the unfortunate, crestfallen man who is now a widow.
The strange 'true' story about a falling cow from the sky happened in 1996. In fact there were several versions, here is one of them:
The dazed crew of a Japanese trawler were plucked off the sea of Japan clinging to the wreckage of their sunken ship. Their rescue however, was followed by immediate imprisonment once the authorities questioned the sailors on their ships' loss. They claimed that a cow, falling out of a clear blue sky, had struck the trawler amidships, shattering it's hull and sinking the vessel within minutes.
They remained in prison for several weeks, until the Russian Air Force reluctantly informed the Japanese authorities that the crew of one of it's cargo planes had apparently stolen a cow wandering at the edge of a Siberian airfield, forced the cow into the plane's hold and hastily taken off for home. Unprepared for live cargo, the Russian crew was ill equipped to manage a now rampaging cow in it's hold. To save the aircraft and themselves, they shovelled the animal out of the cargo hold as they crossed the Sea of Japan at an altitude of 30,000 feet.
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