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The Fall of Otrar

Гибель Отрара

1991

This staggering historical epic dramatizes the intrigue, betrayal, and doomed defense of the Central Asian city of Otrar on the eve of its annihilation by Genghis Khan's Mongol hordes. A vast, brutal, visually arresting spectacle.

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