For all you Saka-philes
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2019 6:29 pm
Apologies if this counts as OT... I know there are a lot of historical movies out there, but this period/setting rarely gets cinematic treatment and yet tends to feature in a lot of FoG battles.
Upcoming Kazakh film on the Cyrus-Tomyris war. Not wild about the depiction of Cyrus as a generic movie baddie and I have no idea what anyone is saying, but the costumes and the steppe warfare look pretty well-done - shooting at very close range, no football-halftime-performance synchronized CGI formations, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oELU4GxerM&app=desktop
Upcoming Kazakh film on the Cyrus-Tomyris war. Not wild about the depiction of Cyrus as a generic movie baddie and I have no idea what anyone is saying, but the costumes and the steppe warfare look pretty well-done - shooting at very close range, no football-halftime-performance synchronized CGI formations, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oELU4GxerM&app=desktop