Монголы / I mongoli / The Mongols / Les Mongols

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В ролях:

Джек Пэланс / Jack Palance, Франко Силва / Franco Silva, Анита Экберг / Anita Ekberg, Антонелла Луальди / Antonella Lualdi, Габриэль Антонини / Gabriele Antonini, Марио Колли / Mario Colli, Пьер Крессо / Pierre Cressoy, Андрей Гарденин / Andrej Gardenin, Джанни Джарко / Gianni Garko, Ролдано Лупи / Roldano Lupi, Лоуренс Монтейн / Lawrence Montaigne, Габриэлла Паллотта / Gabriella Pallotta, Витторио Саниполи / Vittorio Sanipoli, Джордж Ванг / George Wang.

О фильме:

1240-й год. Орды Oгатая (Джек Пэлэнс), сына Чингисхана, стоят на границе России и Польши, угрожая вторжением в Европу. Европейские державы, чтобы предотвратить нападение, отправляют в Суздаль посла - поляка Стефана Краковского. Но Oгатай не хочет мира … Предстоит великая битва, которая и решит дальнейший ход истории. Великолепная режиссерская работа Андре Де Тота в масштабном историческом фильме с прекрасной игрой актеров, впечатляющими декорациями, костюмами и сценами сражений.

Цитата:
You could really stitch yourself together a fine “history of the Mongol peoples” if you sit down for a day full of nothing but movies about Mongols in which white people play all the Mongolian leads. The peplum films from the 1960s produced several Mongol/Tartar themed adventures. Jack Palance, who starred as Attila the Hun in the 1954 epic The Sign of the Pagan gets to paste on a fake Fu Manchu moustache for 1961′s The Mongols, in which he seems determined to teach John Wayne a thing or two about chewing the scenery. Palance, in his trademark style, hisses, spews, bellows, and blusters his way through this mini-epic as Ogatai, the ambitious son of Genghis Khan. Not to be outdone by Susan Hayward’s red-haired Tartar princess, The Mongols features blonde Swedish beauty Anita Ekberg as Hulina. The Mongols tells the story of the Great Khan’s attempts to forge a peace with the Polish knights with whom he has been warring. This irks his aggressive son Ogatai to no end, and Ogatai embarks on his own campaign or war-making and pillaging despite his father’s softening. Lucky for Ogatai, Genghis was just a little ways away from falling off his horse and dying.

The Mongols serves as sort of a prequel to three later peplum adventures (two of them featuring scripts by the same guys who wrote the Mongols), and starting with The Conqueror, then continuing with The Mongols, and finally going all out with the triple punch of Samson and the Seven Miracles of the World, Hercules Against the Mongols, and Hercules Against the Barbarians, you’d get a pretty solid understanding of history. Well, at least history as told by drunken filmmakers. It’s fitting, however, that The Conqueror fits in so well with these later Italian productions, because it has much more in common with them than with the contemporary American epics with which it was attempting to compete when it was released. Heck, even some of these peplum films, made for a fraction of the price, contain more spectacle and scope than The Conqueror. And in case you were curious, no. Anita Ekberg and assorted Italian actors are no more convincing in their fake eyelids and Mongol make-up than Hayward and Wayne.

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