Mongol on June 6th
If historical films are your thing, then Mongol is one for you to watch. The film about Genghis Khan will be released on June 6th and is directed by Sergei Bodrov. It stars Tadanobu Asano, Sun Honglei, Khulan Chuluun and Odnyam Odsuren.
Mongol has been nominated for an Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film. The film is a collaboration between four companies based in Germany, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia. The official website reports more details.
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 Asano Tadanobu (ZATOICHI, LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE) captures the inner fire that enabled a hunted boy to become a legendary conqueror.
News Blaze comments on the film.
Mongol is more impressed with its own olden days ready-to-rumble attitude and flesh-ripping Far Eastern beatdowns, than fleshing out with any depth or reflection just who these characters were and how they struggled to exist back then. History as a scenically breathtaking but dramatically sparse guided tour.
Enjoy the trailer.