Director of Photography
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 of Photography
Polémica película representativa según sus directores de un nuevo género, el "realismo histórico". Fue prohibida en la URSS en su día. La cinta narra un acto de provocación realizado por los imperialistas y bandidos del Ejército Blanco en la frontera china.
