Thursday, October 15, 2015
6 – 8 pm
Exhibition Galleries

Storm Over Asia Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin 1928, USSR, 125 min.

In Storm Over Asia, the last film in Pudovkin’s trilogy on the Revolution, an ailing Mongolian hunter sends his son to a trading post to sell a valuable silver fox fur. When a British trader cheats him out of the fur, the young trapper fights back and is forced to flee. He joins a band of Bolshevik partisans fighting the occupying British army. He is captured and sentenced to death, but a document found in an amulet around his neck leads his captors to think that he is a descendant of Genghis Khan. The British hope to install him as a puppet ruler, but he rebels and leads his people to victory over their oppressors. The film was shot largely on location in Mongolia, with panoramic views of vast landscapes, and has a documentary feel, despite its melodramatic plot. Several scenes featuring the historically inaccurate British occupation of Mongolia were cut from the original film print.

Free with Pay-What-You-Wish admission.