The Fall of Otrar (Gibel Otrara)

This is one of the most brilliant films ever made. It’s like a fusion of co-writer German’s Hard to Be a God, Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev, and Żuławski’s On the Silver Globe. Even with an atrocious Russian dub, the greatness of The Fall of Otrar is undeniable. Criterion or…

KINODASEIN

*Twitch Redeem by Seventh_Persona.* ***One of the best 150 films I have ever seen.*** The second best film of the 1990s. It's a common preconception, perhaps an unconscious bias in some, definitely a conscious one in several, that the 90s cannot replicate the…

Edgar Cochran ✝️🍋

Kazakh New Wave director Ardak Amirkulov’s THE FALL OF OTRAR is a massive, hypnotic epic about one of the most crucial military battles in world history. In the early 13th Century, Ghengis Khan conquered Ortrar, a major city of the old Persian kingdom of Kharazm that stood…

Janus Films

A contemplative elegiac tale of diplomacy, greeed & betrayal all wrapped under Political allegory and cultural identity. [Below para. Include spoilers] I really admire how the film shows the consequences of political betrayal and conquest in Otrar without overdoing the…

Immortan Vader

Ardak Amirkulov’s THE FALL OF OTRAR opens for a week-long run at Film at Lincoln Center in New York City on Friday, August 1st! Full listing here: https://www.filmlinc.org/films/the-fall-of-otrar/ It also screens on Saturday, August 9th at the American Cinematheque at…

The Film Foundation

Monumental. Feel almost like the comparisons to Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev will be the most common point of reference to describe something like this, but Ardak Amirkulov belongs inside his own class. Perhaps it all stems from the way that Amirkulov builds this epic from the…

Jaime Rebanal 🇵🇸

Watching The Fall of Otrar was without a doubt one of the most intense film experiences I've had in a while. The historical era, centering around Genghis Khan's influence over east asian areas is completely filled with blood, tears and dirt. Ardak Amirkulov captures this…

mat109

"I've been killing. We started in different ways but the end was always the same. And Everything might have been the other way round. My life too has gone away..... Listen, I hear our Otrar held out longer than any other City."I need this film to be restored and remastered…

Mathew

i got off a flight and went directly to lincoln center to a 9pm screening of kazakh war epic THE FALL OF OTRAR because i had to. brutal movieeee i kept trying to figure out why the film stocks were changing but then i decided that was pointless and just let all the battles…

nora