General Information

Original Title

Potomok Chingiskhana

Author/Creator

Pudovkin, Vsevolod, director.

Language

Russian.

Published

Soviet Union : Mezhrabpomfilm, 1928.

Physical Description

VHS (93 min.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

An ailing hunter dispatches his son to the marketplace to sell a valuable silver-fox fur. When a British trader seizes the fur and gives a ridiculously small price for it, the son fights back and is forced to flee. He joins a band of Bolshevik-led partisans fighting the tyrannical White Guard and their British allies. He’s captured and almost executed; then a document found in an amulet around his neck leads his captors to think that he is the descendant of Genghis Khan. The British hope to install him as a puppet ruler, but he rebels and leads his people to victory over their oppressors. The film was exported as Storm over Asia, and scenes and intertitles that identified the occupying forces as British were cut, so that the ‘bad guys’ could be passed off with relatively minor offense as White Russians.

Subjects

Genre

Fiction films

Bibliographic Information

Title Translation

The Heir to Genghis Khan – aka Storm over Asia

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
VHS	OSA Film Library	FL Record 0225	Available	-	-