'Mongol' conquers Nika Awards

March 22, 2008 MOSCOW -- "Mongol," Sergei Bodrov’s Genghis Khan biopic, which was nominated for a best foreign language film Oscar but lost out to the Austrian film, "The Counterfeiters," has won six Nika Awards, the Russian equivalent of the Oscars. The win included film, director (Bodrov), cinematography (Sergei Trofimov and Rogier Stoffers), sound design (Stephan Konken, Bruno Tarrière, Maxim Belovolov), art direction (Dashi Namdakov and Yelena Zhukova) and costumes (Karin Lohr). The Best Film prize was awarded by Mikhail Shvydkoy, head of the Russian Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography, who remarked, Finally we have lived long enough to see that the state is no longer in debt to cinema.

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