The Desert of the Tartars (Il deserto dei Tartari) (1976)

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Directed by

Valerio Zurlini

Starring (View all)

Jacques Perrin
Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo

Vittorio Gassman
Colonel Giovanbattista Filimore

Giuliano Gemma
Major Matis

Helmut Griem
Lieutenant Simeon

Philippe Noiret
General

Francisco Rabal
Marshal Tronk

Fernando Rey
Colonel Nathanson

Laurent Terzieff
Lieutenent Pietro Von Hamerling

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Dino Buzzati
novel and

André G. Brunelin
story

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Description: As his first assignment, lieutenant Drogo is sent to an isolated fortress on the borders of a desert and of a range of high mountains. The mission of the garrison is to prevent a possible incursion by the fearsome Tartars, coming from beyond the desert. Some fellow officers are eagerly awaiting an attack; some no longer want to believe in it; others take advantage of the vague threat to further their career. All of them are sacrificing everything -- health, youth, friends, family -- for a distant military ideal: leading the defence against the onslaught of the enemy. But in the vast emptiness surrounding the fortress, nobody has ... (more)

Release date: 29 October 1976