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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.
Jul 18, 2010 · Adapted from Dino Buzzati’s famous novel, The Tartar Steppe, the plot follows the first assignment of a naive young glory seeking lieutenant Drogo (Jacques Perrin) to an isolated fortress on the edges of Empire (Empire in the most universal/archetypal/timeless sense).
The soldiers of a desert fortress prepare themselves for an enemy attack upon the isolated village they are protecting.
- War, Drama
Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.
