Storm Over Asia is a 1928

1928 in film

-Events:Although some movies released in 1928 had sound, most were still silent.* July 28 - Lights of New York is released by Warner Brothers. It is the first "100% Talkie" feature film, in that dialog is spoken throughout the film...

 Russian film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin was a Russian and Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor who developed influential theories of montage...

, written by Osip Brik

Osip Brik

Osip Maksimovich Brik , , Russian avant garde writer and literary critic, was one of the most important members of the Russian formalist school, though he also identified himself as one of the Futurists....

, Ivan Novokshonov and starring Valéry Inkijinoff. It forms part of Pudovkin's "revolutionary trilogy", alongside Mother

Mother (1926 film)

Mother is a 1926 Soviet film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin depicting one woman's struggle against Tsarist rule during the Russian Revolution of 1905. The film is based on a novel of the same title by Maxim Gorky....

(1926) and The End of St. Petersburg

The End of St. Petersburg

The End of St. Petersburg is a 1927 silent film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and produced by Mezhrabpom. Commissioned to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, The End of St Petersburg was to be Pudovkin's most famous film and secured his place as one of the foremost Soviet...

(1927).

Plot

In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from the trading post, he escapes to the hills after brawling with the trader who cheated him. In 1920 he becomes a Soviet partisan, and helps the partisans fight for the Soviets against the occupying British army. However he is captured by the British when they try to requisition cattle from the herdsmen at the same time as the commandant meets with a reincarnated Grand Lama. After the trapper is shot, the army discovers an amulet that suggests he is a direct descendant of Genghis Khan. They find him still alive, so the army restores his health and plans to use him as the head of a puppet regime. The trapper is thus thrust into prominence as he is placed in charge of the puppet government. By the end, however, the "puppet" turns against his masters in an outburst of fury.

Historical inaccuracy

It has been pointed out "(1) that the English never had been in Mongolia, and (2) that what the cunning Englishmen were doing in the film, the cunning Russians were doing in real life."

Cast

• 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