Feature film
Son of Mongolia
Сын Монголии
Ilya Trauberg · 1936
Synopsis
A young Mongol herdsman, simple and strong, loves a shepherdess, Dulma. A rival pays a fortune-teller to send him away, and she sends him off to look for an enchanted garden whose fruits, so the legend says, make heroes. His quest takes him across the border into Inner Mongolia, where he discovers the injustice of the princes and of the Japanese spies preparing the invasion of his country.
Context
Produced by the Lenfilm studios of Leningrad and released on 20 November 1936, the film was written by Boris Lapin, Lev Slavin and Zakhar Khatsrevin, photographed by Moisei Kaplan, with music by Nikolai Rabinovich; the roles are played by Mongolian performers, including Tseveen and Ichin-Khorlo, and Russian and Mongolian are spoken in it. Some sources also credit a Mongolian co-director, Demberel Baldan, of the Ulaanbaatar studio opened in 1935. The film was released in London in 1938, at the Berkeley cinema.
Who it is for
A fiction feature film from 1936, in Russian and Mongolian, which mixes fairy tale, melodrama and propaganda.
Prizes and reception
Graham Greene praised a panoramic shot in it in 1938 and criticised its ending; banned in the Soviet Union in 1941.
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