Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan

Year: 2007

Country: Russia, Germany, Kazakhstan

Tagline: Greatness comes to those who take it.  »

Plot: 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.The movie traces the early and tumultuous years of legendary warrior Genghis Khan, then known as Temudgin, who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world including Russia in 1206.

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