Orda (2012)

It is the word "horde" that had meant, for many countries and nations, bloody raids and being under humilating contribution for centuries - a strange and scary world with its own rules and ... See full summary »

Director:

Andrey Proshkin

Writer:

Yuriy Arabov

Stars:

Maksim Sukhanov, Roza Khayrullina, Innokenti Dakaiarov

18 wins & 20 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Maksim Sukhanov	...	Metropolitan Aleksei
Roza Khayrullina	...	Taidula
Innokenti Dakaiarov	...	Khan Dzhanivek
Aleksandr Yatsenko	...	Fedka
Vitaliy Khaev	...	Prince Ivan
Aleksey Yegorov	...	Badakul
Fedot Lvov	...	Timer
Andrey Panin	...	Khan Tinibek
Aleksey Shevchenkov	...	Vasili the stoker
Moge Oorzhak	...	Berdibek
Romuald Andrzej Klos	...	Ambasador
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Daulet Abdygaporov
Tolepbergen Baisakalov
Rinat Khairullin	...	voevoda Djanibeka (as Rinat Khayrullin)
Sergey Makarov

Storyline

It is the word "horde" that had meant, for many countries and nations, bloody raids and being under humilating contribution for centuries - a strange and scary world with its own rules and customs. To be or not to be for Rus (Ruthenia), that is the price of the one-man mission as he is departing to this world to accomplish a feat. The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani-Beg's mother, from blindness, in 1357.

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Plot Keywords:

horde | blindness | horseback riding | fur coat | sin | 

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Genres:

Biography | Drama | History

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

Russia

Language:

Russian Tatar Italian

Release Date:

20 September 2012 (Russia)

Also Known As:

The Golden Empire

Filming Locations:

Astrakhan, Russia

Box Office

Budget:

$12,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Pravoslavnaya Encyclopaedia

Technical Specs

Runtime:

129 min

Color:

Color

User Reviews

disagree

Are you sure you are well enough informed about all "historical value"? have you any idea about mongol-tatar yoke over Russia (more than 200 years)? So what exactly attitude you expect, when describing this particular period? Well, maybe Mongolian version is better and more different, it is... well understandable. But it's Russian history and Russian film. There are so much historical sources about how Russian were killed in a most cruel ways, thousands of them, families and towns. There was almost no life at all, how you expect all this feelings in every soul - fear and anger - to be shown? And yes, it the almost beginning of Christianity in Russia, with all passion and exaggеration, but also with all self-sаcrifice, specific for the period. So for me portraits of Mongolians are interesting and even soft... Or you expect always Russians to be bad, no matter who is opposite, Goebbels or Mongolians of the Horde, or etc. Time was full of cruelty, hatred, collision... and it is shown. I don't say the film is brilliant. But it is easy to fill your review with "interesting" phrases like "paranoid, hyper racist anti Asian propaganda", "KGB/orthodox church sponsored rubbish", "Goebbels anti Jews propaganda"... They are attractive and welcome for haters. But understanding is something different.