Storm Over Asia (1928)
Drama · War · History
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.
Cast
- Valéry Inkijinoff as Bair
- A. Dedintsev as The British Commandant
- Aleksandr Chistyakov as The Russian Rebel Leader
- Anel Sudakevich as Commandant's blonde daughter
- Boris Barnet as English soldier, pipe smoker
- Karl Gurnyak as English soldier
- Vladimir Tsoppi as Henry Hughes
- L. Belinskaïa as The Commandant's Wife
- Fyodor Ivanov as The Lama
- Aleksandr Baturin as Englishman