The Fall of Otrar
Kazakh New Wave iconoclast Ardak Amirkulov’s hypnotic thirteenth-century epic is a feverish vision of one of history’s most decisive battles—Genghis Khan’s siege of the now-lost city of Otrar—engraved in images of stunning, hallucinatory power. When his warnings about an imminent invasion are taken for insolence, a former Mongol scout (Dokhdurbek Kydyraliyev) must escape imprisonment to stop an escalating diplomatic crisis and avert a clash of civilizations. With a panoramic scope that encompasses intimate palace intrigue and the merciless sweep of battlefield carnage, The Fall of Otrar is a monumental imagining of seismic historical upheaval—and a terrifying, electrifying feast for the senses.
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Cast
- Dokhdurbek Kydyraliyev
- Unzhu
- Tungyshbai Dzhamankulov
- Kairkhan
- Bolot Beyshenaliyev
- Genghis Khan
- Abdurashid Makhsudov
- Muhammad II of Khorezm
- Kasym Zhakibayev
- Old man
- Zaur Zekhov
- Merchant
- Sabira Atayeva
- Terken Hatun
- Pyotr Morozov
- Slave
Credits
- Director
- Ardak Amirkulov
- Written by
- Alexei German
- Written by
- Svetlana Karmalita
- Written by
- Ardak Amirkulov
- Music by
- Kuat Shildebayev
- Cinematographer
- Sapar Koichumanov
- Cinematographer
- Aubakir Suleyev
- Editor
- G. Qystauova
- Sound
- Alim Baigarin
- Sound
- Gulsara Mukataeva
- Sound
- Olga Vagina
- Production design
- Aleksandr Rorokin
- Production design
- Umirzak Shmanov
- Set photographer
- Natalia Shestakova
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