Mongol
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008In fact, the spookily powerful child Temudjin (Odnyam Odsuren) in this, dominates the first part of the film, undergoing trials and tribulations that make the lives of Dickens’ abused and imperiled children look like a picnic.
From age nine into his 30s, Temudjin was orphaned, hunted, imprisoned, enslaved, and constantly threatened by extinction.
Literally alone in the vast landscape, Temudjin escapes death repeatedly, at times almost mysteriously.
“Mongol” is huge - with endless vistas and epic crowd scenes, quite without special effects - but Bodrov keeps the setting just that, never strutting visuals for their own sake.
The film is about people, and the cast is magnificent.
Asano’s face and eyes hold attention, and make the viewer experience simultaneous feelings of getting to know the character he plays and being held at arm’s length.
Bodrov and Asano escape all the many Hollywood pitfalls in making an epic - they present nothing easy, predictable, trite. The term “Shakespearean” is used here advisedly.
The Mongolian actors are sensational: Khulan Chuluun is luminous as Borte, Temudjin’s wife; Borte’s 10-year-old self, the girl who chooses Temudjin, then 9, while he thinks he is the one making the decision, is unforgettable, even if the name is hard to remember: Bayertsetseg Erdenebat. 
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Warning:- this post does not contain the films Goofs.
… now for Magic’s Technical Bit:
Director
Sergei Bodrov
Writers
Arif Aliyev
Sergei Bodrov
Release Date
6 June 2008 (UK)
Genre
Biography | Drama | Romance | War
Tagline
Greatness comes to those who take it.