Storm over Asia (1928)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Storm over Asia |
| Original title | Потомок Чингис-Хана |
| Country of production | USSR |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1928 |
| length | 130 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vsevolod Pudovkin |
| script |
Ossip Brik I. Novokschenow (novel) |
| production | Film company Meschrabpom |
| music |
Nikolai Krjukow (1949) Bernd Schultheis (2008) |
| camera | Anatoly Golovna |
| occupation | |
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Storm over Asia (original title Потомок Чингис-Хана , transcription Potomok Tschingis-Chana ) is a silent film by the Soviet director Vsevolod Pudovkin from 1928.
action
In 1920, against the backdrop of the Siberian intervention , the benevolent Mongol Bair tries to sell a valuable fox skin in the market. Since the English fur traders don't offer him enough for it, he demands his fur back. In the scuffle that ensues, an Englishman is easily injured with a knife. Nevertheless, the English protection force strikes immediately with mercilessness and chases Bair. This then joins partisans loyal to Moscow.
He is captured in later fighting and is said to be shot. At the same time, the English officers discover a secret document in an amulet belonging to Bair, which identifies him as a descendant of Genghis Khan . Thereupon they want to make him the puppet king of Mongolia in order to be able to control the region better with his help.
At first, Bair, who was seriously injured while trying to shoot him, seems apathetic to join the game of foreign invaders. But when they shoot a defenseless prisoner in front of his eyes, he wakes up from his lethargy and flees to the partisans. Under Bair's leadership, they immediately begin an attack on the foreign intruders. The English have thus kindled the storm over Asia .
background
The film is the third film from Pudovkin's "Revolution Trilogy"; it was preceded by The Mother (1926) and The End of Saint Petersburg (1927).
Storm over Asia was re-released in 1949 with new music and commentary and dubbed in German by DEFA , the GDR film studio . This version was almost 90 minutes long.
criticism
" Storm over Asia is the greatest film epic known in the history of film."
Trivia
In the years 2000–2003, the Tuvinian band Yat-Kha accompanied the film with its own soundtrack at several live events in the USA and Europe.
Web links
- Storm over Asia in the Internet Movie Database (English)