Review of Storm Over Asia (1928) by Scott R — 06 Nov 2011

Vsevolod Pudovkin's Storm Over Asia is set in the late 1910s to the late 1920s in the british occupied Mongolia (In real life it was the russians) where we follow the young mongol boy Bair. The whole story starts in 1918 where many mongols have gathered in a pawn shop to sell their fur for money to by food.

But when Bair gets underpaid, by the greedy capitalist pawn owner, a revolt starts and Bair has to runaway. Two years later, he have joined the partisan movement during the russian revolution which also spreed as far as Mongolia.

But he's soon taken prison by the british, who discovers a neck less around his neck, and inside of that they find a piece of paper with old mongolian hand writing where it stand that Bair is a descendant of the great Genghis Khan, and decides to use him as a puppet.

Storm Over Asia is a well made silence film, with the perfect amount of anger. But the religious sermonizes can it be to much of. But it's a realistic and heart breaking story. Thumbs up.