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The Desert of the Tartars (Italian: Il deserto dei Tartari) is a 1976 Italian film by director Valerio Zurlini with an international cast including Jacques Perrin, Vittorio Gassman, Max von Sydow, Francisco Rabal, Philippe Noiret, Fernando Rey, and Jean-Louis Trintignant.
Oct 29, 1976 · The Desert of the Tartars: Directed by Valerio Zurlini. With Jacques Perrin, Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma, Helmut Griem. Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.
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- Drama, History, War
- Valerio Zurlini
- 1976-10-29
'The desert of the Tartars'), also published as The Stronghold (La fortezza), is a novel by Italian author Dino Buzzati, published in 1940. The novel tells the story of a young officer, Giovanni Drogo, and his life spent guarding the Bastiani Fortress, an old, unmaintained border fortress.
- Dino Buzzati
- 1940
Jan 12, 1977 · On the border of a central European Empire in the year 1900, the young Lieutenant Drogo, freshly out of military school, is assigned to the Bastiano fortress, located in an outpost of the Empire overlooking a huge barren expanse: the desert of the Tartars.
The Desert of the Tartars. The soldiers of a desert fortress prepare themselves for an enemy attack upon the isolated village they are protecting.
- (16)
- Valerio Zurlini
- PG
- Vittorio Gassman
Drogo, a young lieutenant, is assigned to the defense of an isolated fortress in a mountainous desert region. The garrison’s mission is to fight off any attacks by the Tartars. In reality though, the real enemy is time, sapping their lives and vitality as they wait for an enemy that never shows up. Synopsis.
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With an all-male, all-star European cast, it takes place in 1907 on a remote desert fortress called Bastiano, referred to as a “dead border station”. They stand guard against an enemy who never arrives, as they age and sicken.
