Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan

• Movies
• 2011-12-08
• EN
• Released
• 0h 34m
• US
• Documentary

• 7.0
• 1

Production

VICE Media

Storyline

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.