Storm Over Asia

Is a revolutionary melodrama., described by critics as an "epic poem" and one of the most perfect examples of the formal beauty of silent film.
The Mongol residents of the arid steppe can trace lineage back to the ancient warriors who once swept through eastern and central Russia. But by 1918, when the story begins, they are reduced to near poverty, trading modest fur harvest with exploitative western buyers. British troops occupy the region to protect these foreign interests during the upheavals of the civil war which followed the Russian Revolution.
One Mongol lad, the na