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Storm Over Asia - Region 2 DVD

Description: The last of the three great films that VI Pudovkin directed in the 1920s, Storm Over Asia (1928) is an acknowledged classic of Soviet silent cinema. Filmed largely on location in Mongolia, the film has an authentic documentary feel, though the story is a stirring melodrama, about a young fur trapper who is mistreated by the occupying forces in the civil war and becomes a leader of the partisans. Pudovkin enjoys caricaturing the foreign (British) troops and the medieval rituals of a Buddhist temple, but it's out on the steppes that he really comes into his own, with panoramic shots of the vast landscapes. Together with The Mother ... (more)
Manufacturer: Eureka
Release date: 9 April 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5060000404326
Tags: Russian (1), Silent (1), East European (1), 1916-1929 (1)
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