Feature film
His Name Is Sukhe-Bator
Его зовут Сухэ-Батор
Iosif Kheifits · 1942
Synopsis
The film traces the struggle of Damdin Sükhbaatar, founder of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party and leader of the 1921 revolution. Hunted by the Mongolian ruler's government, which promises a large reward for his capture, he makes his way to Moscow with a delegation from his country and meets Lenin there. Facing him stands an adversary, General Baron Roman Ungern.
Context
Produced by Mongol Kino, Lenfilm and the Tashkent studio, which the director was then heading, the film was released on 12 October 1942 and runs one hour twenty-nine minutes. The screenplay is by Zakhar Khatsrevin and Boris Lapin, the cinematography by Boris Petrov, the music by Boris Arapov and Venedikt Pushkov. Lev Sverdlin plays Sükhbaatar, Nikolai Cherkasov Baron Ungern, Maksim Shtraukh Lenin and Semyon Goldshtab Stalin. The direction is shared with Zarkhi, his working companion since the late twenties.
Who it is for
A Soviet feature film of an hour and a half; it is better to know that its hero really lived, from 1893 to 1923.
Prizes and reception
Distributed in Czechoslovakia as early as 1949; Russian critics rank it among the portraits of “men of the new world” by its authors.
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