Is it possible to justify the bride kidnapping if “he” and “she” will create a happy family after that? People marry by mutual agreement and love. And it happens that they marry of parents’ interests will. But Kyrgyz people have such a custom when the bride is kidnapped. Rural herder Sagyn’s mother decides to marry her son to a modest girl Anara with parents of whom she has already come to an agreement. And he is in love with rural beauty Asyl, but who has a fiancé. The mother and her son Sagyn organize a youth party with a purpose to kidnap Anara, but those who helped them accidentally kidnap Asyl. Thus, desired but another’s bride become Sagyn’s wife. Through difficult relationships of the newlyweds during their life together among wild mountain nature where they move after the marriage, Asyl suddenly realizes that exactly Sagyn is her only one and dear to her heart man. —trigon-film.org
Born in Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan in 1961, he studied at the Institute for Russian language and Culture and subsequently worked as a schoolteacher for five years. He joined Kyrgyzfilm Studios as a production manager and location manager in 1988; in the same period he also worked on a satirical film magazine named “Korogoch”. He later became an editor and assistant director and has now been working as a director since 1993. Saratan marks his debut as a feature film director. —trigon-film.org