Ending of : Storm Over Asia - Potomak Chingis-khan 1928

[galanopouloc]

Regardless of historical inaccuracies it must be noted that this was one of the first films that gave the world an inside view of Mongolian culture and indigenous lifestyle before the Mongolian Peoples Republic was founded. It is a great masterpiece which regardless of its communist message must be restored to its full glory...

[D1lk]

This is Pudovkin's masterpiece and one of the greatest films in world cinema! It needs restoration and better music but its originality and montage are extraordinary. Strangely, it's more relevant today than when it was issued in 1928: now it's NATO and Americans threatening Central Asia. Back then it was Brits and their mercenaries.

[yichella]

@D1lk You do realize the events in the film are entirely fictional... right? The British never controlled Mongolia. In fact many of the indignities portrayed in the film were committed by Russians, not the Brits.

[D1lk]

@yichella The greatest indignity for a nation is foreign armies fighting on its soil. British, American, Czechoslovak, Polish and German generals fought the soviets over huge areas of Russia during the so-called "civil war". A German general was responsible for atrocities in Mongolia/Siberia. But the major power seeking to "contain" Russia throughout the nineteenth century was Britain. This may be why Pudovkin made the villains of the film British officers. Today they would be American...

[ekyzir]

It is a brilliant film!

[ramberghini]

I would like to see more of this movie. where did you find this?