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Son of Mongolia (1936)

Son of Mongolia (1936)

Drama
Release Date: 1936, November 20
Directors: Ilya Trauberg
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Lenfilm
Cast: Nyamyn Tsegmid, Bat-Ochir Danzan, Ichinkhorloo Dashzeveg, Tseveen Chimidiin, Sosorbaram Badrakh, Gombo Dashdorj, Ir-Kan

Overview:

A strange film as beautifully jumbled as the political environment out of which it sprang, like a handsome weed, "Son of Mongolia" is a travelogue of unique and authentic richness, an amusing Far Eastern horse opera of picaresque character, and a scientifically valuable anthropological document in which the Soviet film industry may well take pride. Objective and modern, yet permeated with a fresh folk quality that goes back to the reckless and lovely Tartary of Genghis Khan, it rises above all its inescapable Soviet-isms into a new frontier region of plains, mountains, tents and herds, a world still appreciably beyond the range of Western cameras.