Chingis-Khan's Role at all Stages of his Life – from Childhood to Old Years – in a Film by Yakut Director will be Interpreted by Tuvan Actors

Andrey Borisov, a famous Yakut director, has finished filming episodes for 'On Chingis'Khan's Will' film in the Tuvan landscapes. The film is a joint Russian-Mongolina-American venture. For the main role of the legendary warrior out of hundreds of pretenders Tuvan actor Eduard Ondar was selected. Borisov noted him in Kazan (Tatarstan) at 'the Nauruz' theatre festival early summer this year where he headed the jury. The Tuvan theatre showed there 'King Lear' by Shakespear with Eduard Ondar in the motley man image. As Borisov later on confessed it struck him immediately on seeing Eduard on the stage: 'That's the Man!' Chingis-Khan in his childhood will be also interpreted by a Tuvan – Tomur, 12. Alexei Mongush will play the aging warrior. This film has a modest budget and is being shot thanks to enthusiasm and free help of the ethnic republics of Russia – Buraytia, Yakutia, Tuva supplying the film group free of charge with the needed properties and cattle and people for crowd scenes. Interesting is the fact that at the same time another film project on Chingis-Khan's life with a blns dollars budget is launched by Selyanov, director of the 'Coo-Coo' film. The film is a joint Japanese-Mongolian-Corean-American venture and the film is titled 'Mongolian'. Borisov calls it a Hollywood populist version of Chingis-Khan's life.