The Tajiks prepare their flat bread, using a somewhat different method from their Pushtu neighbors. In the grim Hindu Kush Mountains, a lone Moslem woman of the Tajik tribe kneads her dough into a flattened, rounded form, slapping it to the vertical walls of her clay oven. The crisp, flat, unleavened bread is like that of Biblical times.
Films » Baking Oven Bread
Baking Oven Bread
Alternative Title: Making Bread
Series Title: Mountain Peoples of Central Asia
Summary:
Description:
Edited Film
Country/Location: Badakhstan (Northeastern Afghanistan)
Tribe or Group: Tajik
Cinematographer: Hermann Schlenker
Production Company: IFF
Running Time: 11 min.
Decade Produced: 1960s
Years Distributed: -1969
Film Gauge: 16mm
Stock: B&W safety
Footage Count: 389'
Sound: Un-narrated, Native Music
Notes: Shot and edited before African Village Life films. IFF took Schlenker's footage and cut into 14 separate films. Schlenker owns OCN. Earlier title was Making Bread (titles changed @ 1972). There are 14 titles in the Mountain Peoples of Central Asia series: 10 were released first in 1969, 4 were released in 1972.
