Mongol
Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Sun Honglei, Khulan Chuluun
Director: Sergei Bodrov
Now Playing at: Ritz Five Philadelphia (as of July 20, 2008)
Language: Mongolian (with English sub-titles)
One of history’s colorful characters, Genghis Khan a.k.a. Temudgin was the great Mongol leader who lived from 1162-1227.
Released in June in the U.S. to mostly favorable reviews, Sergei Bodrov’s Mongol is a sympathetic portrait of Genghis Khan, a man often reviled as a brutal monster in the West.
Filmed in some of the desolate spots on Earth in Mongolia, China and Kazhakstan with a diverse cast of actors hailing from several countries, Mongol is a decent historical movie that brings to life a man who united the disparate nomadic Mongol tribes under his leadership.
Mongol, the movie, is the sweeping account of a man who sought to provide basic laws for the Mongol tribes.
The movie begins when Temudgin is nine-years-old and, according to the tradition of the day, time to look for a bride. So accompanied by his father Esugei (Ba Sen), a tribal leader, and a handful of close associates, young Temudgin (Odnyam Odsuren) embarks on a journey to pick a bride from the Merkit clan.
For Temudgin’s father, it’s also a way to make amends – and more importantly peace – because many ago before he’d stolen for his bride, a Merkit warrior’s wife.
But young Temudgin has different ideas. Continue reading »
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