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Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan

  • December 2011
  • 34mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Suroosh Alvi,

    Eddy Moretti,

    Shane Smith,

    Santiago Stelley

    ...

    Starring

    Thomas Morton,

    In the Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan, tradition is king. Polo's still played with a freshly killed goat and the men still marry their women the old-fashioned way: by abducting them off the street and forcing them to be their wife. Bride kidnapping is a supposedly ancient custom that's made a major comeback since the fall of Communism and now accounts for nearly half of all marriages in some parts.