Son of Mongolia (1936)
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.
Director:
Ilya Trauberg
Writers:
Lev Slavin, Boris Lapin, Zakhar Khatsrevin.
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Tseveen Chimidiin as Tseveen |
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Sosorbaram Badrakh as Chauffeur |
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Bat-Ochir Danzan as The Prince |
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Gombo Dashdorj as Innkeeper |
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Ir-Kan as Prince's Foreign Advisor |
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Nyamyn Tsegmid as The Monk |
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Ichinkhorloo Dashzeveg as Dulmaa |
| Art | Igor Vuskovich | Art Direction |
| Writing | Lev Slavin | Screenplay |
| Writing | Boris Lapin | Screenplay |
| Writing | Zakhar Khatsrevin | Screenplay |
| Sound | Nikolay Rabinovich | Music |
| Directing | Ilya Trauberg | Director |
| Sound | Eduard Grikurov | Music |
| Camera | Mikhail Kaplan | Director of Photography |