#NowWatching THE FALL OF OTRAR (1991). Director: Ardak Amirkulov. Dokhdurbek Kydyraliyev, Tungyshpai Zhamankulov.
Kazakhstan epic set in 13th Century Central Asia as Genghis Khan's quest for global domination results in deadly 6-month battle for city of Otrar.
#filmsky 📽
Criterion Collection 1296
Kazakhstan epic set in 13th Century Central Asia as Genghis Khan's quest for global domination results in deadly 6-month battle for city of Otrar.
#filmsky 📽
Criterion Collection 1296
October 2, 2026 at 10:38 AM
#NowWatching THE FALL OF OTRAR (1991). Director: Ardak Amirkulov. Dokhdurbek Kydyraliyev, Tungyshpai Zhamankulov.
Kazakhstan epic set in 13th Century Central Asia as Genghis Khan's quest for global domination results in deadly 6-month battle for city of Otrar.
#filmsky 📽
Criterion Collection 1296
Kazakhstan epic set in 13th Century Central Asia as Genghis Khan's quest for global domination results in deadly 6-month battle for city of Otrar.
#filmsky 📽
Criterion Collection 1296
May 18th: Gibel Otrara (The Fall of Otrar, 1991, Ardak Amirkulov, Eye Filmmuseum)
NL: www.moviemeter.nl/film/281876/...
Watch it for its Kurosawa-like epicness, read up on the history later to understand what you saw.
📽️ #filmsky #cinema #film #movies
NL: www.moviemeter.nl/film/281876/...
Watch it for its Kurosawa-like epicness, read up on the history later to understand what you saw.
📽️ #filmsky #cinema #film #movies
A ★★★½ review of The Fall of Otrar (1991)
An epic film lasting almost three hours about the Mongol siege of Otrar in Khwarezm (now in Kazakhstan). Unfortunately, it’s difficult to follow, as Kazakh director Amirkulov assumes the viewer has at...
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May 19, 2026 at 10:10 AM
May 18th: Gibel Otrara (The Fall of Otrar, 1991, Ardak Amirkulov, Eye Filmmuseum)
NL: www.moviemeter.nl/film/281876/...
Watch it for its Kurosawa-like epicness, read up on the history later to understand what you saw.
📽️ #filmsky #cinema #film #movies
NL: www.moviemeter.nl/film/281876/...
Watch it for its Kurosawa-like epicness, read up on the history later to understand what you saw.
📽️ #filmsky #cinema #film #movies
director G. Aravindan’s son, and film editor and festival programmer Bina Paul (on Kummatty)
The Making of “The Fall of Otrar,” a new program featuring interviews with director Ardak Amirkulov, actor Tungyshbai Dzhamankulov, art director Umirzak Shmanov, and film critic Gulnara Abikeyeva
The Making of “The Fall of Otrar,” a new program featuring interviews with director Ardak Amirkulov, actor Tungyshbai Dzhamankulov, art director Umirzak Shmanov, and film critic Gulnara Abikeyeva
October 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
director G. Aravindan’s son, and film editor and festival programmer Bina Paul (on Kummatty)
The Making of “The Fall of Otrar,” a new program featuring interviews with director Ardak Amirkulov, actor Tungyshbai Dzhamankulov, art director Umirzak Shmanov, and film critic Gulnara Abikeyeva
The Making of “The Fall of Otrar,” a new program featuring interviews with director Ardak Amirkulov, actor Tungyshbai Dzhamankulov, art director Umirzak Shmanov, and film critic Gulnara Abikeyeva
The good people at Notebook asked me to write about the restored Fall of Otrar. Of course, I turned in an essay on the deep strangeness of past worlds: mubi.com/en/notebook/...
Bridging the Void: On “The Fall of Otrar” and the Historical Epic
As Adak Amirkulov excavates the deep past, records are lost and recreated as legends.
mubi.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The good people at Notebook asked me to write about the restored Fall of Otrar. Of course, I turned in an essay on the deep strangeness of past worlds: mubi.com/en/notebook/...
#obitpatrol Deaths: Storyteller Alain Le Goff; social media influencer Cesar Gastelum; artist Tomas Parra; director Ardak Amirkulov; singer and songwriter Francesco Guccini www.obitpatrol.com
August 6, 2026 at 10:55 PM
#obitpatrol Deaths: Storyteller Alain Le Goff; social media influencer Cesar Gastelum; artist Tomas Parra; director Ardak Amirkulov; singer and songwriter Francesco Guccini www.obitpatrol.com
I was able to see explanations! Was glad to notice that the Bresson and Amirkulov are at least in someone else’s pipeline, but very sad to learn that Suzuki is in such poor shape. I think it may have been by first of his films seen!
May 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I was able to see explanations! Was glad to notice that the Bresson and Amirkulov are at least in someone else’s pipeline, but very sad to learn that Suzuki is in such poor shape. I think it may have been by first of his films seen!
Australia's Cinema Reborn festival kicks off today in Sydney! There are tons of great films including TFF projects Sergei Parajanov's SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (1965), Henry King's STELLA DALLAS (1925), & Ardak Amirkulov’s THE FALL OF OTRAR (1991)
Full line-up✨ cinemareborn.com.au/2025-Program
Full line-up✨ cinemareborn.com.au/2025-Program
2025 Program — Cinema Reborn
GALA SCREENINGHOLIDAYGEORGE CUKOR, 1938 CLOSING NIGHTTHE FALL OF OTRARARDAK AMIRKULOV, 1992 SATURDAY CENTREPIECE McCABE & MRS....
cinemareborn.com.au
April 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Australia's Cinema Reborn festival kicks off today in Sydney! There are tons of great films including TFF projects Sergei Parajanov's SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (1965), Henry King's STELLA DALLAS (1925), & Ardak Amirkulov’s THE FALL OF OTRAR (1991)
Full line-up✨ cinemareborn.com.au/2025-Program
Full line-up✨ cinemareborn.com.au/2025-Program
National Cinema Dictionary: K is for Kazakh Cinema.
The Fall of Otrar (Ardak Amirkulov, 1991). A historical-adventure epic.
The Fall of Otrar (Ardak Amirkulov, 1991). A historical-adventure epic.
April 11, 2026 at 7:00 PM
National Cinema Dictionary: K is for Kazakh Cinema.
The Fall of Otrar (Ardak Amirkulov, 1991). A historical-adventure epic.
The Fall of Otrar (Ardak Amirkulov, 1991). A historical-adventure epic.
#bestfilminlondontoday Feb 8 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London rep cinema scene. Ardak Amirkulov's monumental historical epic THE FALL OF OTRAR (1991) at BFI IMAX in all its restored glory. capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/01/capi...
February 8, 2026 at 9:44 AM
#bestfilminlondontoday Feb 8 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London rep cinema scene. Ardak Amirkulov's monumental historical epic THE FALL OF OTRAR (1991) at BFI IMAX in all its restored glory. capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/01/capi...
#bestfilminlondontoday Feb 8 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London rep cinema scene. Ardak Amirkulov's monumental historical epic THE FALL OF OTRAR (1991) at BFI IMAX in all its restored glory. capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/01/capi...
Capital Celluloid 2027 — Day 39: Sun Feb 8
The Fall of Otrar (Amirkulov, 1991): BFI IMAX, 10.45am This monumental historical epic set in the 13th century, four-years-in-the-making ye...
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January 16, 2026 at 2:24 PM
#bestfilminlondontoday Feb 8 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London rep cinema scene. Ardak Amirkulov's monumental historical epic THE FALL OF OTRAR (1991) at BFI IMAX in all its restored glory. capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/01/capi...
The Fall Of Otrar (Amirkulov 91)² The kind of visionary recreation of 13th cent. warfare that makes the corner of my "known world" seem tiny
November 20, 2024 at 9:16 AM
The Fall Of Otrar (Amirkulov 91)² The kind of visionary recreation of 13th cent. warfare that makes the corner of my "known world" seem tiny
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By: Kent Jones on Thursday, January 22, 2026
By: Kent Jones on Thursday, January 22, 2026
The Fall of Otrar: From the Ruins of Otrar
This visually stunning masterpiece from Kazakh New Wave iconoclast Ardak Amirkulov is one of the few films that looks evil in the eye without flinching.
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January 23, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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By: Kent Jones on Thursday, January 22, 2026
By: Kent Jones on Thursday, January 22, 2026
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Published on Friday, January 16, 2026
Published on Friday, January 16, 2026
Capital Celluloid 2027 — Day 39: Sun Feb 8
The Fall of Otrar (Amirkulov, 1991): BFI IMAX, 10.45am This monumental historical epic set in the 13th century, four-years-in-the-making ye...
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January 17, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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Published on Friday, January 16, 2026
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By: Robert Rubsam on Monday, December 15, 2025
By: Robert Rubsam on Monday, December 15, 2025
Bridging the Void: On “The Fall of Otrar” and the Historical Epic
As Adak Amirkulov excavates the deep past, records are lost and recreated as legends.
mubi.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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By: Robert Rubsam on Monday, December 15, 2025
By: Robert Rubsam on Monday, December 15, 2025
The Land Where Winds Stood Still - Ardak Amirkulov - 2023 - Kazakhstan
January 26, 2026 at 4:02 PM
The Land Where Winds Stood Still - Ardak Amirkulov - 2023 - Kazakhstan
773- The Fall of Otrar (1991) Ardak Amirkulov.
06/10❤️
06/10❤️
May 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
773- The Fall of Otrar (1991) Ardak Amirkulov.
06/10❤️
06/10❤️
The future is not as you see it. We are doomed.
- The Fall of Otrar (d. Amirkulov, s. Karmalita/German)
The movie is set in the time as Genghis attempted to rule.
- The Fall of Otrar (d. Amirkulov, s. Karmalita/German)
The movie is set in the time as Genghis attempted to rule.
May 10, 2026 at 5:27 AM
The future is not as you see it. We are doomed.
- The Fall of Otrar (d. Amirkulov, s. Karmalita/German)
The movie is set in the time as Genghis attempted to rule.
- The Fall of Otrar (d. Amirkulov, s. Karmalita/German)
The movie is set in the time as Genghis attempted to rule.
The Fall of Otrar (1991, d. Amirkulov) Amazing movie about Genghis Khan’s attempt to take Otrar, a once prominent province, only it is the story of a scout who knows the essentials of the plan, because he is from Otrar and knows his people.
1/2
1/2
March 13, 2026 at 7:49 AM
The Fall of Otrar (1991, d. Amirkulov) Amazing movie about Genghis Khan’s attempt to take Otrar, a once prominent province, only it is the story of a scout who knows the essentials of the plan, because he is from Otrar and knows his people.
1/2
1/2
My choice for must-see film of this year’s Cinema Rediscovered is Ardak Amirkulov’s THE FALL OF OTRAR (USSR, 1991), which will have its UK Premiere in Bristol’s old IMAX cinema on 26th of July. As Daniel Bird says in the podcast, ‘it’s a once in a lifetime occasion’. notesonfilm1.com/2025/07/21/j...
José Arroyo in Conversation with Daniel Bird on THE FALL OF OTRAR (Ardak Amirkulov, 1991)
My choice for must-see film of this year’s Cinema Rediscovered is Ardak Amirkulov’s THE FALL OF OTRAR (USSR, 1991), which will have its UK Premiere in Bristol’s old IMAX cinema, now called the Bris…
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July 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
My choice for must-see film of this year’s Cinema Rediscovered is Ardak Amirkulov’s THE FALL OF OTRAR (USSR, 1991), which will have its UK Premiere in Bristol’s old IMAX cinema on 26th of July. As Daniel Bird says in the podcast, ‘it’s a once in a lifetime occasion’. notesonfilm1.com/2025/07/21/j...
best first views:
Pavements (Perry)
The Decline of Western Civilization trilogy (Spheeris)
Remember My Name (Rudolph)
Staying Vertical / Nobody's Hero / Misericordia (Guiraudie)
Ladies' Paradise (Duvivier)
Killer of Sheep (Burnett)
A Place in the Sun (Stevens)
The Fall of Otrar (Amirkulov)
Pavements (Perry)
The Decline of Western Civilization trilogy (Spheeris)
Remember My Name (Rudolph)
Staying Vertical / Nobody's Hero / Misericordia (Guiraudie)
Ladies' Paradise (Duvivier)
Killer of Sheep (Burnett)
A Place in the Sun (Stevens)
The Fall of Otrar (Amirkulov)
August 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
best first views:
Pavements (Perry)
The Decline of Western Civilization trilogy (Spheeris)
Remember My Name (Rudolph)
Staying Vertical / Nobody's Hero / Misericordia (Guiraudie)
Ladies' Paradise (Duvivier)
Killer of Sheep (Burnett)
A Place in the Sun (Stevens)
The Fall of Otrar (Amirkulov)
Pavements (Perry)
The Decline of Western Civilization trilogy (Spheeris)
Remember My Name (Rudolph)
Staying Vertical / Nobody's Hero / Misericordia (Guiraudie)
Ladies' Paradise (Duvivier)
Killer of Sheep (Burnett)
A Place in the Sun (Stevens)
The Fall of Otrar (Amirkulov)
I have published it! I've started an ongoing page where I talk about films from before 2025 but I only have seen in 2025 (maybe with a bonus Titanic post). I have added my crass enjoyment & respect rating system to the page as well
May 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I have published it! I've started an ongoing page where I talk about films from before 2025 but I only have seen in 2025 (maybe with a bonus Titanic post). I have added my crass enjoyment & respect rating system to the page as well
Best first-time watches of January 2026:
The Fall of Otrar (1991, Ardak Amirkulov)
The Asthenic Syndrome (1989, Kira Muratova)
Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960, Mikio Naruse)
An Aria on Gazes (1992, Hisayasu Sato)
The Fall of Otrar (1991, Ardak Amirkulov)
The Asthenic Syndrome (1989, Kira Muratova)
Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960, Mikio Naruse)
An Aria on Gazes (1992, Hisayasu Sato)
February 2, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Best first-time watches of January 2026:
The Fall of Otrar (1991, Ardak Amirkulov)
The Asthenic Syndrome (1989, Kira Muratova)
Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960, Mikio Naruse)
An Aria on Gazes (1992, Hisayasu Sato)
The Fall of Otrar (1991, Ardak Amirkulov)
The Asthenic Syndrome (1989, Kira Muratova)
Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960, Mikio Naruse)
An Aria on Gazes (1992, Hisayasu Sato)
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A ★★★★★ review of The Fall of Otrar (1991)
One of the most substantial resurrections achieved by Scorsese’s World Cinema Project. About a decade ago, I attended a Guy Maddin lecture (The Forbidden Room premiere at the Harvard Film Archive). He...
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March 7, 2026 at 6:02 PM
The festival is currently igniting screens at The Ritz Cinema in Sydney, before arriving in Melbourne at Lido this Thursday.
Check out the program below:
cinemareborn.com.au/2025-Program
Check out the program below:
cinemareborn.com.au/2025-Program
2025 Program — Cinema Reborn
GALA SCREENINGHOLIDAYGEORGE CUKOR, 1938 CLOSING NIGHTTHE FALL OF OTRARARDAK AMIRKULOV, 1992 SATURDAY CENTREPIECE McCABE & MRS....
cinemareborn.com.au
May 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The festival is currently igniting screens at The Ritz Cinema in Sydney, before arriving in Melbourne at Lido this Thursday.
Check out the program below:
cinemareborn.com.au/2025-Program
Check out the program below:
cinemareborn.com.au/2025-Program