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LE DESERT DES TARTARES

IL DESERTO DEI TARTARI

By Valerio ZURLINI

PATHE PRODUCTION LTD. - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 1976

Festival de Cannes 2013

Cannes Classics

- Year of production
- 1976
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- FRANCE, GERMANY, IRAN, ITALY
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Budget
- 3 - 5 M$
- Duration
- 160 mn
- Director(s)
- Valerio ZURLINI
- Writer(s)
- Andre G. BRUNELIN, Jean-Louis BERTUCCELLI
- Cast
- Giuliano GEMMA, Jacques PERRIN, Jean-Louis TRINTIGNANT, Max VON SYDOW, Philippe NOIRET, Vitorio GASSMAN
- ISAN
- 0000-0000-0F1C-0000-9-0000-0000-A
- EIDR
- 10.5240/2DC6-C93D-8EBC-605F-330D-Q
- Producer(s)
- Jacques PERRIN (GALATEE FILMS), Michelle DE BROCA (FILDEBROC PRODUCTIONS)
- Synopsis
- 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 defense against the onslaught of the enemy. But in the vast emptiness surrounding the fortress,
  nobody has ever sighted the Tartars...