Tadanobu Asano, Honglei Sun, Khulan Chuluun
Director: Sergei Bodrov

We have come to associate Kazakhstan with a certain Borat Sagdiyev. Mongol may change that. It was Kazakhstan’s official submission for the Academy Awards this year and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. At the same time, this is also a very international film.

Mongol is told in the Mongolian language, directed by an award-winning Russian director, stars a celebrated young Japanese actor and was shot in Chinese Inner Mongolia and Kazakhstan. The film recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world including Russia in 1206.

This is a stunning historical epic with lots of blood and some harrowing battle scenes. This is the first instalment of a proposed trilogy of films about the life of Genghis Khan developed from leading historical accounts. The performances are strong, particularly from Asano Tadanobu, and Bodrov’s direction is typically assured.

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