When a film called “Mongol” takes as its story line the formative years of Genghis Khan, a conqueror who eventually controlled a fifth of the Earth, you know what you’ll be getting. With this film you ...

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For many Westerners, the history of Genghis Khan is summed up in faint images of a cruel nomadic invader who lived centuries ago and built an empire over a geographic landscape of which they have ...

Temudgin does not braid his hair. Why? It's tradition. And his father was poisoned by a rival tribe because he followed Mongolian custom and ignored reason. When it is suggested that Temudgin should ...

Tyrants are sometimes described as “slightly to the right of Genghis Khan.” But Sergei Bodrov wants to rescue Khan from his reputation as a bloodthirsty conqueror of 12th-century Russia. The ...

You want a history lesson? Take a class. You want clanging swords, sneering villains, storybook romance and bloody vengeance? Here’s a brawny old-school epic to make the CGI tumult of 300, Alexander ...

COMBINING the intelligence of an action movie with the excitement of an art-house release makes “Mongol” as dry as summer in the Gobi Desert. This biography of the young Genghis Khan presents a ...

To put it mildly, Genghis Khan has not been well-served by the movies. Most people have forgotten 1964’s flop epic, “Genghis Khan,” starring Omar Sharif as the Mongol warrior originally known as ...

Russian director Sergei Bodrov (“Nomad,” “Prisoner of the Mountains”) tries to rehabilitate the reputation of Genghis Khan in his big, sweeping biopic, “Mongol.” Maybe because the great Mongol warlord ...

Mongol: Historical drama. Directed by Sergei Bodrov. With Tadanobu Asano, Honglei Sun and Khulan Chuluun. In Mongolian with English subtitles. (Rated R. 124 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) "Mongol" ...

It's the late 12th century, at a trading bazaar in the Gobi Desert. A ruler from the local Tangut dynasty is buying slaves, and he's drawn to a captive named Temudgin. A seer warns against the ...