Storm Over Asia

Storm Over Asia is a revolutionary melodrama described by critics as an epic poem and one of the most perfect examples of the formal beauty of a silent film. V.I. Pudovkin, whose Mother and The End Of St. Petersburg placed him with Eisenstein, Vertov and Dovzhenko in the forefront of Soviet filmmakers, directed this production in 1928 in remote Mongolia, incidentally providing the first film documentation of the traditional life there.