Heart of Asia (Afghanistan)

• Movie

  Type

• 1929

  Year

• 1h 5m

  Runtime

• ★ 5.0

  Rating

• Documentary

  Genre

This Russian documentary offered tantalizing glimpses of Afghanistan, which in 1929 was still one of the few heavily-populated areas in the world where the residents continued to live as they did in the Middle Ages. A progressive new leader named Amnullah tries to "Westernize" the country, meeting plenty of resistance from native reactionaries.