Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgystan (tbc)
- Run time: 51 mins
- Language: Kyrgyz
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 1st January 2004
Plot Synopsis
According to an old Kyrgz proverb, a good marriage always begins with tears. If this were truly the case, then this Central Asian country would be a newly weds paradise. Among the traditions practiced here is the kidnapping of young girls, who are subsequently violently forced into marriage by the family of the groom. ěStop struggling and donít cry anymore, in time you will get used to it, after all we were also kidnapped when we were youngî. These are the words of two older women trying to calm down the newly kidnapped girl, who is cowering in fear in the corner of her ěnew homeî. Only in extraordinary cases do these girls succeed in escaping. Although illegal this tradition continues.