Spending life at high altitude: Kyrgyz highlanders in the centuries long struggle with harsh environment

Nov 22, 2023

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Overview

The film story follows the international group of researchers who are performing the scientific expedition in a remote high altitude Kyrgyz village named Sary Mogol.

Genres

Documentary

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Cast

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Akpay Sarybaev

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Abdirashit Maripov

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Karin Quanz

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Ralph Theo Schermuly

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Akylbek Sydykov

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Aleksandar Petrovic

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Christina Vroom

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Argen Mamazhakypov

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Djuro Kosanovic

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Simon Platzek

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Nils Schupp

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Franz Löffler

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.

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