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Film@UC Tells Tale of Khan
Film free, open to public
Written By Keith Henry '08, Communications Assistant
"Mongol" tells tale of Genghis Khan
Contact - cleogrande@utica.edu
Utica, NY (02/09/2009) - Utica College’s FILM@UC series will screen the Academy Award-nominated film Mongol on Thursday, Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. in the Macfarlane Auditorium, DePerno Hall. The screening is free and open to the public.This Russian film, shot on the vast and breathtaking steppes of Mongolia and Kazakhstan, recounts the early life of one of the world’s most feared and rapacious conquerors, Genghis Khan. Before he unified the Mongol people and set about creating an empire that stretched from Europe to the Pacific, Khan’s formative years were filled with treachery, heartbreak, abandonment and ultimately triumph.
The fascinating tale of the great Khan’s beginnings was made in the grand tradition of the film epic, reminiscent of John Ford’s works. New York Times film critic A.O. Scott wrote of the film, “Directed by the protean and prolific Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov, it is, among other things, a stubborn defense of old-fashioned, grand-scale moviemaking. Without irony or digital effects Mongol, the first installment in a planned trilogy, tells the story of a solitary man’s rise to a position of great power.”
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