Son of Mongolia

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.

Release Date

November 20, 1936

Runtime

83 min

Genres

Drama

Directed by

Ilya Trauberg

Screenplay by

Boris Lapin, Zakhar Khatsrevin, Lev Slavin

Language

Mongolian