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Storm over Asia

1928125 minSoviet Union
Drama

Synopsis

A Mongolian trapper's quarrel with a dishonest trader draws him into a much larger struggle for power. After his capture, foreign occupiers decide that his supposed ancestry could make him a useful figurehead. Their plan depends on a man they have underestimated accepting the role chosen for him.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian.
This copy runs
130:38
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Vsevolod Pudovkin; The Bolshevik Trilogy - Three Films by Vsevolod Pudovkin YouTube : Storm Over Asia (1928) – View/save archived versions on archive.org https://yts.mx/movies/storm-over-asia-1928 · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsVsevolod Pudovkin

Historical context

Vsevolod Pudovkin made this film after Mother and The End of St. Petersburg, completing a group commonly described as his revolutionary trilogy. Its alternative title, The Heir to Genghis Khan, points to the political use of lineage at the heart of its fictional anti-imperialist story.

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