2012 · drama · historical · epic
The Horde
Directed by Andrei Proshkin2h 9m2012
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.
Our read: The Horde (2012) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · historical · epic entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme drama / historical, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
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