Potomok Chingis-Khana (Storm over Asia) (The Heir to Genghis Khan) poster & wallpaper

Aleksandr Chistyakov, Valéry Inkijinoff, Viktor Tsoppi

The last of the three great films that V.I. Pudovkin directed in the 1920s, Storm over Asia (1928) is an acknowledged classic of Soviet silent cinema. Filmed largely on location in Mongolia, th...( read more  read more... )e film has an authentic documentary feel, though the story is a stirring melodrama, about a young fur trapper who is mistreated by the occupying forces in the civil war and becomes a leader of the partisans. Pudovkin enjoys caricaturing the foreign (British) troops and the medieval rituals of a Buddhist temple, but it's out on the steppes that he really comes into his own, with panoramic shots of the vast landscapes. Together with Mother (1926) and The End of St. Petersburg (1927), Storm over Asia (also known as The Heir to Genghis Khan) entitles Pudovkin to be ranked with Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov as a master of the Soviet montage style, which he expounded in his book Film Technique (1929). --Ed Buscombe

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Unrated, 1 hr. 14 min.

Directed by: Vsevolod Pudovkin

Release Date: February 11, 1929

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DVD Release Date: May 18, 1999

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  • shannylee38
    January 13, 2008
    shannylee38
    I absolutely loved this picture. The story, the cinematography, the editing and the list keeps on going, everything is well-made. (I wont get too much into it because it is a very complex film.)
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  • hypathio7
    July 4, 2008
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    won recognition as a best foreign film by NBR
  • DemonicNightmare
    September 28, 2006
    DemonicNightmare
    This looks really crap.

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