Movie of the Mongols invasion

There was also a movie called Genghis Khan that starred Omar Sharif as Temujin. This movie was even worse than the John Wayne movie. It didn't even try to follow historical facts. 

Another old Soviet movie called Ilya Muromets (aka the Sword and the Dragon) featured Russians battling very Mongol-like barbarians called Tugars. As bad as the movie was at least the Russians had the sense to cast Asian actors for the Mongol roles. That's more than you can say for the American films.

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Yes, i am from ulaan baatar. Are you planning to come here this summer? you know, this year is the 800th anniversary of Chingez Khaan's great Mongolian state. 

Does any1 know what happened to Steven Sigals long waited and planned Chingez Khaan's movie?

I have seen very good doc-dramas on TV but I think most of you or even all are from the states right??? here in UK they have shown quite a few doc-dramas on Mongols and GK...they all had real Mongol cast and the doc-dramas were in Mongolian with English subtitles...it felt weird watching  that in Mongolian on BBC  

Hi SaikhanBayar

The miniseries may have it's flaws but I think
the theme of it is excellent.
Westerners like myself used to brand CK as an arrogant
aggressor, but after watching the miniseries, I now agree
100% with my wife Baadema, that CK is more of a prophet
sent by Heaven to pacify, unify, and integrate a world in
perpetual conflict in the 12th century.
I agree that it is not a miniseries about the Mongol invasion of Europe.
Are you from Ulan Bataar? I used to do peace corps work
there.
best regards
Clive

btw, i didn't like the clothes used in the movie. "Wilder" than the real one at that time...

and in fact this movie is about chingez khaan's life, not the invasion of mongols into europe

Originally posted by cliveersknell ...But what touched me most throughout the movie was that CK was combined his iron goal driven determination with great humanity. This aspect Westerners , like myself find it quite hard to understand...

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Okey, i don't really know about the different cultures inside china, but all i mean is there is no point of making china & mongols are one nation
and i think we are going farther from the point of this topic...

peace

I'm sorry my geological knowledge is not that good, but u mean inner mongolians?

They might have different face, but not like difference between Mongol face and Chinese face?(or Han face i should say) . I think that people who say mongols uighhurs and tibetans are one nation along with China(han), they better start proving it from Tibets first, and then like Uighurs , Kazakhs, and Mongols..

More on, Mongols have very different culture and language than Han chinese, but the Northern chinese people u mentioned should have similiar with Han chinese...
again i think most people wouldn't say mongols as chinese except some in china itself...

peace

if u look at the faces of people of china and mongolia, you would see they ARE NOT and WERE NOT one nation, its like comparing japanese to europeans... but uighurs and tibetians (and kazaks) more lookalike mongols  than chinese... but the human being were one nation before seperated to ethnic and tribes long time ago... it has many sides to think of it!

Yes, this feeling is interesting. I live in Hong Kong, I do not have such feeling. but many Chinese in the mainland have such feeling.It is because the history books of Communist China always state that"from ancient time"(They do not point out clearly how ancient)"China is a multi national nation", Huns , Mongols, Manchus, Tibet people and  Uigher, as well as other minority ethnic groups are all the members of China. And under this idea, Gh became Chinese hero(although may not correct in my view) some Chinese historians consider the wars between Hans and Mongols or Hans and Manchus  were only civil war between different ethnic group of China. But taiwan historians also have such idea. MMr Lo Hong Lam, an anti communist historian, even stated that the Manchus and Mongols had a same  blood link with Hans,  he stated that in ancient time, some Hans people moved north, into the steppe, they  became the Mongols and manchus, so he stated that Manchus and Mongols  did not invade China, only to come back to their ancient home.Many follow this idea. Hans people always had a strange feeling towards the Gk.The founder of the Ming dynasty also recognized Gk as the  legitimate leader of China.In  modern time, when inner mongolia region became part of China, and M<ongols became part of Chinese, this feeling becomes stronger. Apache Chief Geronimo fought against US , but today he was also recognized as a national hero. Right? One type of helicopter  of Us was name as Apache. But many Apache warriors in 19 or even 20 century might not even recognized themselves as American. At that time. many American also did not recognized apach people as American. A Gual hero,who almost crushed Caesar, also recognized as the national hero  of France, but today French  really  the sons daughters of the ancient Gaul?