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Romanian title
Mongol - Destinul razboinicului Gingis Han

Production year
2006

Country
Russia

Release Date
9 December 2009

Genre
War, Romance, Drama

Director
Sergei Bodrov

Cast
Tadanobu Asano
Honglei Sun

Theatrical release


Synopsis
The movie is an epic story of a young Genghis Khan and how events in his early life lead him to become a legendary conqueror.

The 9-year-old Temüjin is taken on a trip by his father to select a girl as his future wife. He meets Börte, who says she would like to be chosen, which he does. He promises to return after five years to marry her. Temüjin's father is poisoned on the trip, and dies. As a boy Temüjin passes through starvation, humiliations and even slavery, but later with the help of Börte he overcomes all of his childhood hardships to become one of the greatest conquerors the world has ever known

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