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directed by

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and starring

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and

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. It received an American release in 1970 under the title ''The Tartars''.Kinnard & Crnkovich p.168 Based on the 1835 novel of the same title by

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, it was made the same year as a much larger budget version ''

Taras Bulba ''Taras Bulba'' (russian: «Тарас Бульба»; ) is a romanticized historical novella set in the first half of the 17th century, written by Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852). It features elderly Zaporozhian Cossack Taras Bulba and his sons And ...

''.

Cast

as Taras Bulba *

as Andrei Bulba * George Reich as Ostapi * Hugo Santana as Gurko *

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as Natalia *

as Voivode * Sylvia Sorrente * Erno Crisa *

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References

Bibliography

* Roy Kinnard & Tony Crnkovich. ''Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908–1990''. McFarland, 2017.

External links

* 1962 films 1960s Italian-language films 1960s historical adventure films Italian historical adventure films Films directed by Ferdinando Baldi Films based on Taras Bulba Films set in the 16th century Films set in Ukraine 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Italy-film-stub