Trivia / The Mongols

• California Doubling: Set in Poland, filmed in Italy.
• Fake Nationality: All over the place, since no-one in the cast was either Polish or Mongol. Yellowface applied for the latter.
  • American actor (of Ukrainian descent) Jack Palance as the Mongol Ögedei.
  • Italian actor Roldano Lupi as the Mongol Genghis Khan.
  • Swedish actress Anita Ekberg as the Polish Hulina.
  • Italian Gianni Garko as the French Henri de Valois.
  • Countless Italian actors and extras as Polish and Mongol warriors.
• International Coproduction: The film is a French-Italian co-production.

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