- Actors: Marguerite Harrison, Haidar Khan, Lufta, Ernest B. Schoedsack
- Directors: Ernest B. Schoedsack
- Writers: Richard Carver, Terry Ramsaye
- Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Silent, NTSC
- Language: English
- Region: All Regions
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: Vid Canada
- Release Date: Oct 1 2002
- Run Time: 71 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 6305773955
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#36,818 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
- #36 in DVD > Special Interests > History > World History & Culture
- #36 in DVD > Documentary > History > World History & Culture
- #58 in DVD > Classics > Silent Films
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A classic adventure by the makers of "King Kong." In 1924, neophyte filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack hooked up with journalist and sometime spy Marguerite Harrison and set off to film an adventure. They found excitement, danger and unparalleled drama in the migration of the Bakhtiari tribe of Persia (now Iran). Twice a year, more than 50,000 people and half a million animals surmounted seemingly impossible obstacles to take their herds to pasture. The filmmakers captured unforgettable images of courage and determination as the Bakhtiari braved the raging and icy waters of the half-mile-wide Karun River. Cooper and Schoedsack almost froze when they filmed the breathtaking, almost unbelievable, sight of an endless river of men, women and children--their feet bare or wrapped in rags--winding up the side of the sheer, snow-covered rock face of the 15,000-foot-high Zardeh Kuh mountain.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
The most amazing film I've ever seen,
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This review is from: Grass Nations Battle for Life (DVD)
This 1925 silent film documentary is not for everybody. The first half is irrelevant and slow, and the commentary is hokey. I was surprised there were no dramatic Hollywood scenes of people falling off cliffs. But what I got instead was a historical record of 50,000 people and 500,000 animals walking for 48 days across Persia to avoid famine. It's hard to believe that these are real people, genuinely swimming for their lives, crossing a half-mile of freezing rapids holding on to blown up goat skins. We are so used to seeing things staged, that it's hard to accept that they really are climbing that 12,000 foot mountain in their bare feet, to get a better grip in the ice and snow.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Unbeliavable Story,
By A Customer
This review is from: Grass Nations Battle for Life (DVD)
I was living in Ankara/Turkey, where the people start their migration in this movie. Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it. A video from 1925s. People passing the snow, barefoot and passing the lake by swiming with animals just took me somewhere else.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing and Horrific,
By PeerGynt "peergynt" (S. Utah) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Grass Nations Battle for Life (DVD)
Though the movie does not dwell excessively on the pain of the 50,000 people who twice anually must trek for 48 days in order to survive, the horrors of such a journey cannot be ignored. The movie is a beautiful account of the lives of humans in the harshest of conditions.
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