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2009/10 Season

MONGOL

Kazak/Russ/Mong/Germany 2007 (15) 126 minutes Directed by Sergei Bodrov

Hollywood Film Theatre - 2 November 2009 - 7.30pm Held as a curiosity in a cage by a Chinese overlord, Temudjin looks back over his childhood and struggle for survival and meditates on uniting Mongolia's warring factions. Breathtakingly physical and vivid, and with authentic locations and a gripping leading player, this is a superb visualisation of Genghis Khan's pre-Khan life. AUDIENCE COMMENTS: The landscape, the music, the faces! Even without the story, this is a fantastic film; "A horse is more important than a woman". Those Mongols knew a thing or two; Amazing fingernails; Far too much blood and gore and macho cliches saved only by the photography; A Mongolian "Braveheart", only without the mildly amusing pathos to lighten the tone.

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