The Desert of the Tartars

The Desert of the Tartars (1976)



IMDb Rating: 7.6/10 (353 votes)
Runtime in Minutes: 140 min / France:138 min
Language: Italian With English Subtitle
Country: Italy / France / Iran / West Germany
Color: Color (Eastmancolor)
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Director: Valerio Zurlini
Cast:
Vittorio Gassman ... Filimore
Giuliano Gemma ... Mattis
Helmut Griem ... Lieutenant Simeon
Philippe Noiret ... General
Jacques Perrin ... Drogo
Francisco Rabal ... Tronk
Fernando Rey ... Nathanson
Laurent Terzieff ... Amerling
Jean-Louis Trintignant ... Le médecin-major Rovin
Max von Sydow ... Hortiz
Shaban Golchin Honaz ... Soldat Lazare
Giuseppe Pambieri ... Lieutenant Rathenau
Bryan Rostron
Kamran Nozad ... Capitaine Sern
Manfred Freyberger ... Caporal Montagne

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 ever sighted the Tartars...

The Grandest—and Most Existential—of Colonialist Epics
by Michael Atkinson
A fascinating whatsit never released in the United States, Valerio Zurlini's 1976 adaptation of the revered 1938 Dino Buzzati novel by the same name is a massive post-Lean epic—a colonialist drama, shot in widescreen on location, and with an international cast including Jean-Louis Trintignant, Max von Sydow, Fernando Rey, Philippe Noiret, and Vittorio Gassman—that's actually about the absence of event and consequence. It may be the grandest and most lavish existentialist parable ever made. A baby-faced soldier (Jacques Perrin) is assigned to the outskirts of an unspecified empire—specifically, to a massive, ancient fortress beyond which lies only the endless desert and "the Tartars," the Orwellian enemy that never appears, but must be prepared for at all times. Time passes in an hourglass; the Old World officers living rather poshly inside are either going slowly insane or praying for reassignment. Employing all of the accoutrements of colonialism as metaphors for futile- destiny despair and yet visually resembling an expensive international co-production in which something big always seems to be on the verge of happening, Zurlini's movie also boasts a secret weapon like none other: the Bam Citadel. Shot entirely within the 2,000-year-old Persian city—decimated forever in the 2003 earthquake—Zurlini's film is fascinating both as a modernist flourish set in a primeval reality, and as a historical record. Extras include a CD of Ennio Morricone's score, three interview docs, trailers, posters, and a dense booklet of production info.

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