Attention is again focused on Genghis Khan, Yakutia's culture minister and director Andrey Borisov has made the epic historical film The Secret of Genghis Khan. The film, worked on for three years and shot in Yakutia, Mongolia, Khakassia, Tuva, Kalmykia, Altai and the Irkutsk region, will be released in March 2009. It stars Eduard Ondar, Sergey Egorov, Oleg Taktarov and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, and the budget was ten million dollars.
Recently, film directors have been carefully fueling viewers’ interest in the figure of Genghis Khan. Another film about the great figure of the medieval East was made by the Minister of Culture of Yakutia, director Andrei Borisov. The presentation of the film “The Secret of Genghis Khan” in Irkutsk will take place on February 23, and the film will be released nationwide in March 2009.It took the director three years to bring the international film project to life. This large-scale historical epic was filmed in Yakutia, Mongolia, Khakassia, Tuva, Kalmykia, the Altai Mountains, and the Irkutsk Region. A number of scenes were shot during the Erdyn Games in 2005 on Lake Baikal.
The film is based on the novel of the same name by Nikolai Luginov, which is widely known in Yakutia; nevertheless, the plot of the film is being carefully kept secret.
The title role in the film was played by Honored Artist of the Republic of Tuva Eduard Ondar. The young Temujin was played by Yakut actor Sergei Egorov.
The film also starred Russian Oleg Taktarov, world champion in mixed martial arts, Hollywood actor of Japanese descent Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (playing the bodyguard of the Naiman queen Gurbesu), Mongolian actor Orgil Makhaan, and Chinese actor Tu Me. Artists from Russia, the United States, Mongolia, and China took part in the crowd scenes.
The budget of the most expensive film project of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) amounted to ten million dollars.