![]() I don't have enough knowledge of the period to know whether the people of his empire would have taken this view. For political and/or esthetic reasons, Khan is portrayed as a man who brought the warring Mongolian tribes together, and as a lawgiver and just ruler. ![]() The acting was excellent, especially that of Odnyam Odsuren as the young Ghenghis Khan, Tadanobu Asano as the grown man, and the beautiful Khulan Chuluun as Börte, his wife. The movie is colorful, the battle scenes are graphic, and men, women, and horses all look great. The film ends before we can see Khan's eventual consolidation of his huge empire.) There is (literally) a cast of thousands. (The movie portrays Ghenghis Khan as a young boy and then a young man. He was captured and enslaved as a boy, but managed to escape and eventually conquer his local tribal enemies. The film is more or less consistent with the Wikipedia report of Khan's life. However, he certainly became a tiger when grown-whether brutal or just powerful is another question. ![]() The movie quotes an old proverb: "Do not scorn a weak cub he may become a brutal tiger." Actually, as portrayed in the film, Ghenghis Khan was hardly a weak cub, even as a young child. It's a biography of Ghenghis Khan, especially his rise to power. It was filmed in Kazakhstan, and is in Mongolian with English subtitles. Mongol (2007), was co-written and directed by Sergei Bodrov.
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