Potomok Chingis-Khana (1928)

Regisseur:

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Drehbuchautoren:

Osip Brik (writer)
I. Novokshenov (story)

Premierendatum:

6. September 1930 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Historienfilm | Kriegsfilm

Werbezeile:

Pudovokin's Remarkable Film Of The East In Revolt

Plot:

In 1918 a simple Mongol herdsman escapes to the hills after brawling with a western capitalist fur trader who cheats him...

Plot Keywords:

Fur Trapper | King | Odyssey | Revolution | Historical

Nutzerkommentare:

Just to point out

Besetzung

Valéry Inkijinoff	...	Bair, the Mongol [The Son - U.S.] (as Valeri Inkishanov)
I. Dedintsev	...	The British Commandant
Aleksandr Chistyakov	...	The Russian Rebel Leader
Viktor Tsoppi	...	Henry Hughes, unscrupulous fur-buyer.
F. Ivanov	...	The Lama
V. Pro	...	British missionary, translates amulet
Boris Barnet	...	English soldier, pipe smoker
Karl Gurniak	...	English soldier
I. Inkizhinov	...	Bair's Father
L. Belinskaya	...	The Commandant's Wife
Anel Sudakevich	...	Commandant's blonde daughter

Alternativ:

Storm Over Asia
The Heir to Genghis Khan
Sturm über Asien (Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

127 Min (18 fps) | Germany:82 Min (restored and synchronised version) | Sweden:114 Min | USA:74 Min | Australia:126 Min

Produktionsland:

Soviet Union

Farbe:

Schwarzweiss

Seitenverhältnis:

1.33 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Silent

Altersfreigabe:

Finland:K-16 (1951) | Sweden:15 | Australia:PG | Finland:(Banned) (1929)

Firma:

Mezhrabpomfilm

Just to point out

... that our hero is NOT a descendant of Genghis Khan, since he acquires the amulet which says he is by chance in a scuffle with the local lama. He's just a young hunter who's unjustly treated and, since he has never opened the amulet which the officers have to cut into, he can at first have no idea of the message which has made these unaccountable people change their attitude. Pudovkin is undermining the concept of hereditary leadership quite thoroughly therefore, which is far from irrelevant to the Bolshevik message. It strikes me that it had some very relevant messages for a propaganda drive, for example that the themes and the need for revolution applied to all the peoples in the Soviet orbit, not just to the Russians; that anti-Bolshevik forces exploited the country's resources when they were present (I don't know if they really did, but the point is forcefully made) and that traditional values could be twisted to serve the ends of a power-hungry enemy. There's also several attacks on religious institutions, here Buddhist not Orthodox but within a cross-Soviet pattern. The message was frequent but rarely expressed so intelligently - see the inauguration of the Lama which is outstanding because it's a genuine, rational argument translated into an astounding visual image.