Iosif KHEIFITS
Иосиф ХЕЙФИЦ
Iossif KHEIFITS
Aleksandr ZARKHY
Александр ЗАРХИ
Aleksandr ZARKHI
USSR, 1942, 105mn 
Black and white, fiction
His Name Is Sukhe-Bator
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Его зовут Сухэ - Батор

 

 On l’appelle Soukhe-Bator

 Yego zovut Sukhe - Bator

 
Directed by : Iosif KHEIFITS (Иосиф ХЕЙФИЦ), Aleksandr ZARKHY (Александр ЗАРХИ)
Writing credits : Zakhar KHATSREVIN (Захар ХАЦРЕВИН), Iosif KHEIFITS (Иосиф ХЕЙФИЦ), Boris LAPIN (Борис ЛАПИН), Aleksandr ZARKHY (Александр ЗАРХИ)
 
Cast
Nikolay CHERKASOV (Николай ЧЕРКАСОВ) ...Baron von Ungern-Sternberg
Lev SVERDLIN (Лев СВЕРДЛИН) ...Stalin
Maksim STRAUSH (Максим ШТРАУХ) ...Lenin
Vladimir GRIBKOV (Владимир ГРИБКОВ) ...Gombo
Ivan BOBROV (Иван БОБРОВ)
 
Cinematography : Aleksandr GINTSBURG (Александр ГИНЦБУРГ)
Production : Lenfilm, Mongolkino
 
Sites : Kinopoisk, IMDb
Plot synopsis
1919. Mongolian people are rising against feudal lords oppressing peasants and herdsmen. The uprising is headed by Sukhe, nicknamed Bator for his courage. The fill narrates about the national liberation movement of Mongolian people.
Source : www.lenfilm.ru
 
Commentaries
 
In 1924, Urga was renamed Ulan Bator (Red Hero).
Baron von Ungern-Sternberg (1896-1921) became a legendary, romantic hero, even featured in comics such as "The Shadow of the Damned. Ungern Kahn. Mongolia 1921" by Crisse (Ed. Vents d'Ouest/1988), in which Ungern has the features of the actor Klaus Kinski, and "Corto Maltese in Siberia" (1979, the 24th adventure of Hugo Pratt's character).
He is the subject of the novel "Ungern, the Khan of the Steppes" (Ed. Les Syrtes / 2001) by Léonide Youzefovitch.


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Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Lenin in Russian and Soviet cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025
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