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Mongol

Sergei Bodrov

Categories: Featured, Foreign Feature

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Run time: 120 min. | Germany, Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia | Language: Mongolian with English subtitles

Award-winning Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov (Prisoner of the Mountains) illuminates the life and legend of Genghis Khan in this stunning historical epic. Based on leading scholarly accounts and written by Bodrov and Arif Aliyev, Mongol (Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film) delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of the ruler who was born as Temudgin in 1162. As it follows Temudgin from his perilous childhood to the battle that sealed his destiny, the film paints a multidimensional portrait of the future conqueror, revealing him not as the evil brute of hoary stereotype, but as an inspiring, fearless and visionary leader. Mongol shows us the making of an extraordinary man, and the foundation on which so much of his greatness rested: his relationship with his wife, Borte, his lifelong love and most trusted advisor.

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Rated 4.0/5 Stars 1 2 3 4 5 jaycbird 12:22 PM		This Oscar nominated foreign language film (officially from Mongolia?) is spectacularly shot. It was nearly on the level of David Lean spectacle, and deserves to be seen on the largest screen possible. (It was screened in the smaller cinema #3 and should have been in #4, but there was a sell out in the larger house.) it is difficult to appraise performances that are 1) in such a foreign language; 2) set in 12th century Mongolia. However, the pair of actors playing Ghengis Khan and his wife are able to express a romanticism that is on par of the incredible battle scenes, thus the allusion to David Lean spectacle. So, though it is great to see some spectacle, the history seems so remote to me, that it plays almost as fantasy more than history. It also has a really odd end title score, that has nothing to do with the period, much less the story of what the film was about. http://jaycbird.blogspot.com