Homepage Programme   Program 2002   Program 2003   Program 2004 Dossiers Shop Press Archive     deutsche Version Home/Programme/Todays programme/Details Genre film Origin Asia Uzbekistan Title "Yallanga" (The Flame) Director: Choukrat Makhmoudov, USSR (Uzbekistan) 1988, 30 min, original version with German commentary Admission fee 4 Euro Date 13.04.2002 Start 21:00 In the eighties, despairing at being trapped between poverty and oppression, and with no hope of escape, ever more women in Central Asia chose an agonising death by burning. Author: Haus der Kulturen der Welt Contact: Doris Hegner hegner@hkw.de