Storm Over Asia
Original Title: “Потомок Чингисхана”
“Pudovokin's Remarkable Film Of The East In Revolt”
Overview
Lowly Mongolian trapper Bair, shunned by his fellow trappers for fighting with a trader, flees his trading post and joins the Soviet partisans trying to oust the occupying British forces. After Bair is captured and shot by the British, they find an amulet on him suggesting he is a descendant of Genghis Khan. The soldiers nurse Bair back to health and use him to establish a puppet government, unaware that their plan will backfire when the puppet breaks his strings.
Top Cast
Valéry Inkijinoff
Bair
A. Dedintsev
The British Commandant
Aleksandr Chistyakov
The Russian Rebel Leader
Anel Sudakevich
Commandant's blonde daughter
Boris Barnet
English soldier, pipe smoker
Karl Gurnyak
English soldier
Vladimir Tsoppi
Henry Hughes
L. Belinskaïa
The Commandant's Wife
Fyodor Ivanov
The Lama
Aleksandr Baturin
Englishman
Key Film Crew
Production Stats
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