QIs this film available on Blu-ray?
AYes it is. Both the US edition and the UK edition, both released in 2010, are identical to their counterparts on DVD (ie the US edition contains only a downloadable digital copy, the UK edition contains a featurette and some trailers).
QWhy do we not see Genghis Khan capturing other nations? This is what he is most famous for.
AThis is because the film depicts only his younger years. Temudgin only becomes Genghis Kahn at the very end of the movie, and as the closing legend makes clear, he didn't begin to conquer other lands until after he had united the Mongolian tribes.
QIs this movie based on a novel?
ANo. Mongol was written for the screen by Russian writers Arif Aliev and Sergey Bodrov. In 1992, Bodrov came across The Legend of the Black Arrow, a book about Genghis Khan and the Mongols, written by famed Russian historian Lev Gumilev. It was this book which inspired Bodrov to make the film, and to begin further research into the subject matter. Bodrov's research soon led him to The Secret History of the Mongols, which was anonymously written in the thirteenth century shortly after Temudgin (Genghis Khan's birth name) died in 1227. Secret History is an epic poem which deals with Temudgin's formative years and is the only surviving historical document from the period of his life. As sketchy as the document is (eg there are huge gaps in the timeline), Bodrov used it as both a literary work and a historical reference piece.
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