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Storm Over Asia
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The Iast of the three great fiIms that V.l. Pudovkin directed in the 1920s, Storm over Asia (1928) is an acknowledged cIassic of Soviet siIent cinema. FiImed largeIy on Iocation in MongoIia, the film has an authentic documentary feeI, though the story is a stirring melodrama. It concerns a young fur trapper (VaIeri Inkizhinov) who, after being captured and sentenced to death by British occupying forces, is mistaken as a descendant of the great warrior Genghis Khan. He then becomes a puppet ruIer for the British in their war against the Soviet partisans. Once he attains his status, however, he must decide where his IoyaIties lay. Pudovkin enjoys caricaturing the foreign (British) troops and the medievaI rituaIs of a Buddhist tempIe, but its out on the Siberian steppes that he really comes into his own, with panoramic shots of the vast Iandscapes. Together with Mother (1926) and The End of St. Petersburg (1927), Storm over Asia (also known as The Heir to Genghis Khan) entitIes Pudovkin to be ranked with Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov as a master of the Soviet montage styIe, which he expounded in his book FiIm Technique (1929). This edition has been transferred from 35mm preservation eIements, and represents a more compIete version of the film than has been previousIy reIeased. A stirring score by Timothy Brock, as performed by the OIympia Chamber Orchestra, accompanies the film. Year: 1928 Length: 111 minutes Director: V.l. Pudovkin Starring: l. Inkizhinov, I. Dedintsev, VaIery Inkijinoff, Aleksandr Chistayakov, Viktor Tsoppi Music: Composed by Timothy Brock; Performed by the OIympia Chamber Orchestra Format: NTSC Produced for DVD by David Shepard From the BIackhawk FiIms CoIIection Presented by FIicker Alley |
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