Kazakhstan's entry for this year's Academy Awards as Best ForeignLanguage Film is an epic chronicling the rise of Genghis Khan fromorphaned boy to bloodthirsty leader of men.
Mongol may not sound like the most appealing prospect - a two-hour, subtitled history lesson filmed on location in China, Mongoliaand Kazakhstan, which would have been home to nomadic tribes in the12th century - but Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov knows how toengage his audience.
He focuses on the characters and in particular the relationshipbetween the legendary warrior and his wife, contrasting thetenderness between the couple with the fiery determination thatdrives a man to conquer an …
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