Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 06/06/08 (Limited) Home Video Not Available MPAA Rating Rated R for sequences of bloody warfare Running Time 2 hours Genre Foreign,Drama Director Sergei Bodrov Writer Arif Aliyev, Sergei Bodrov Cast Tadanobu Asano, Channing Tatum Studio Picturehouse |
MONGOL (2007)
SYNOPSIS
Based on leading scholarly accounts and written
by Sergei Bodrov and Arif Aliyev, MONGOL 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.
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.
Filmed in the very lands that gave birth to Genghis
Khan, MONGOL transports us back to a distant
and exotic period in world history; to a nomad’s
landscape of endless space, climatic extremes
and ever-present danger. In a performance of
powerful stillness and subtlety, celebrated young
Japanese actor Tadanobu Asano (ZATOICHI, LAST
LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE) captures the inner fire that
enabled a hunted boy to become a legendary
conqueror. Masterfully blending action and
emotion against some of the most arresting
terrain on earth, Bodrov delivers an exciting and
awe-inspiring tale of survival and triumph, and a
love story for the ages.--©Picturehouse
Based on leading scholarly accounts and written
by Sergei Bodrov and Arif Aliyev, MONGOL 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.
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.
Filmed in the very lands that gave birth to Genghis
Khan, MONGOL transports us back to a distant
and exotic period in world history; to a nomad’s
landscape of endless space, climatic extremes
and ever-present danger. In a performance of
powerful stillness and subtlety, celebrated young
Japanese actor Tadanobu Asano (ZATOICHI, LAST
LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE) captures the inner fire that
enabled a hunted boy to become a legendary
conqueror. Masterfully blending action and
emotion against some of the most arresting
terrain on earth, Bodrov delivers an exciting and
awe-inspiring tale of survival and triumph, and a
love story for the ages.--©Picturehouse
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