Potomok Chingis-khana
AKA Storm Over Asia in the USA : [The Heir to Genghis Khan], [The Heir of Genghis Khan]
(1928) Russian
B&W : 2605 metres
Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin

Cast: Valerji Inkishinov [Bair, the mongol], I. Dedintsev [the British commandant], Aleksandr Chistyakov [the Russian rebel leader], Viktor Tsoppi [Henry Hughes], F. Ivanov [the lama], V. Pro [British missionary], Boris Barnet [English soldier], Karl Gurniak [soldier], I. Inkzhinov [Bair’s father], L. Belinskaya [the commandant’s wife], Anel Sudakevich [commandant’s blonde daughter], Leonid Oboloenski [commandant’s moustached adjutant]

Mezhrabpom-Rus’ production. / Scenario by Osip Brike, from a story by I. Novoshenov. Art direction by Sergei Kozlovski and M. Aronson. Cinematography by Anatoli Golovnya. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Pudovkin’s last silent film. The film was released in Denmark on 11 February 1929. The film was released in Sweden on 2 March 1929. The film was released in the USA on 6 September 1930. / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Listing updated: 14 January 2007.

References: Bardèche-History pp. 138, 271, 276, 277-278; Bohn-Light pp. xxv, 150, 151; Leish-Cinema p. 41; Limbacher-Feature p. 234; Shipman-Cinema pp. 100, 101; Weinberg-Stroheim p. xii; Youngblood-Soviet pp. 86, 212-213, 318 : Website-IMDb.

Home Video: DVD.