Storm Over Asia
About Storm Over Asia
In 1918 the Mongol trapper Bair is cheated of a fox fur by a European trader, fights him, and is driven out. By 1920 he is with the Soviet partisans against a British occupying force. Captured during a cattle requisition, he is shot. An amulet marks him as a descendant of Genghis Khan. The British find him alive, heal him, and set him up as head of a puppet government. He turns on them.
Cast & crew
More about Storm Over Asia
Vsevolod Pudovkin directed. Osip Brik and Ivan Novokshonov wrote it from the story Descendant of Genghis Khan. The Russian title is Потомок Чингисхана. Anatoli Golovnya photographed it. Valéry Inkijinoff plays Bair. Wikidata times it at 130 minutes. It is the last film of Pudovkin's revolutionary trilogy, after Mother (1926) and The End of St. Petersburg (1927).
Themes
Background
The story is set in Mongolia in 1918–20, with British officers and a reincarnated lama beside the partisans.
Look
Anatoli Golovnya shot the fur market, the hills, and the temple scenes, including Tamchinsky datsan.
Preservation
Copies are on the Internet Archive and on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Boris Barnet, Anna Sten, Anel Sudakevich, Aleksandr Chistyakov, and Karl Gurnyak are in the cast.
- The English title Storm Over Asia is not a translation of the Russian, which means The Heir to Genghis Khan.
- Copies are on the Internet Archive and on Wikimedia Commons.
Scenes
- Bair fights the trader who has taken the fox skin.
- The British prop him up as a descendant of Genghis Khan, and he breaks the role.
Influenced by
- Descendant of Genghis Khan
Also available
- Internet Archive (StormOverAsiasilentSoviet)
