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Overview
Release Date:
29 October 1976 (Italy) morePlot:
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... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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4 wins moreUser Comments:
Neglected masterpiece moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| 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 |
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Also Known As:
Désert des Tartares, Le (France)Desert des Tartars, Le
Tartarenwüste, Die (West Germany)
The Desert of the Tartars
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140 min | France:138 minColor:
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Drogo: I was sent here by mistake.Le médecin-major Rovin: Here or elsewhere, we're all somewhere by mistake.
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This extraordinary film sprang from a fertile time in world cinema. In the USA the medium was experiencing heady creativity but in Italy such exceptional ability was expected. To see it now is to witness movie making at its most devoted and personal. Zurlini casts it brilliantly. The acting by an acclaimed cast is both restrained and gut wrenching. Adapted from a classic novel, which I have not read, it leaves its literary provenance behind while still managing to address what are normally literary obsessions: existentialism, nihilism and romantic futility. Visually the film is stunning and makes a mockery of the ghastly special effects which in a film like Gladiator make the world seem like a landscape of precious celluloid grey. It is filmed in the middle east in a now earthquake-torn ancient town. If one didn't know such a place existed one would think that special effects had accomplished impossible beauty. But no, its all real. And all spectacularly realised.