Taras Bulba, The Cossack
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''Taras Bulba, the Cossack'' () is a 1962 Italian
historical History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categ ...
adventure film The adventure film is a broad genre of film. Some early genre studies found it no different than the Western film or argued that adventure could encompass all Hollywood genres. Commonality was found among historians Brian Taves and Ian Cameron in ...
directed by
Ferdinando Baldi Ferdinando Baldi (19 May 1927 – 12 November 2007) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Throughout his career he used a number of pseudonyms, including Ted Kaplan, Ferdy Baldwin and Sam Livingstone. Biography Baldi was born in ...
and starring
Vladimir Medar Vladimir Medar (1923–1978) was a Croatian film and television actor. He played the title role in the 1962 Italian adventure film '' Taras Bulba, the Cossack''.Kinnard & Crnkovich p.168 Selected filmography * ''Barba Zvane'' (1949) - Stipe as p ...
,
Jean-François Poron Jean-François Poron (6 May 1936 – 3 September 2020) was a French actor and director. Biography Poron began training as an actor at Cours Simon in Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20 ...
and
Fosco Giachetti Fosco Giachetti (28 March 1900, in Sesto Fiorentino – 22 December 1974, in Rome) was an Italian actor. Fosco Giachetti was the protagonist of ''Lo squadrone bianco'' (1936), directed by Augusto Genina. He became the leading man in Fascist ...
. 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 Nikolay Gogol, it was made the same year as a much larger budget version ''
Taras Bulba ''Taras Bulba'' (; ) 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 Andriy and Ostap. The sons study at th ...
''.


Cast

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Vladimir Medar Vladimir Medar (1923–1978) was a Croatian film and television actor. He played the title role in the 1962 Italian adventure film '' Taras Bulba, the Cossack''.Kinnard & Crnkovich p.168 Selected filmography * ''Barba Zvane'' (1949) - Stipe as p ...
as Taras Bulba *
Jean-François Poron Jean-François Poron (6 May 1936 – 3 September 2020) was a French actor and director. Biography Poron began training as an actor at Cours Simon in Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20 ...
as Andrei Bulba * George Reich as Ostapi * Hugo Santana as Gurko *
Lorella De Luca Lorella De Luca (17 September 1940 – 9 January 2014) was an Italian film, television, and voice actress. One of the most recognized '' ingénues'' of Italian cinema during the mid-to-late 1950s, she is best known for having played naive young ...
as Natalia *
Fosco Giachetti Fosco Giachetti (28 March 1900, in Sesto Fiorentino – 22 December 1974, in Rome) was an Italian actor. Fosco Giachetti was the protagonist of ''Lo squadrone bianco'' (1936), directed by Augusto Genina. He became the leading man in Fascist ...
as Voivode * Sylvia Sorrente *
Erno Crisa Erno Crisa (10 March 1914 – 4 April 1968) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1944 and 1968. His last film was the spaghetti western '' Sugar Colt''. Partial filmography * '' Sideral Cruises'' (1942) - L'h ...
*
Mirko Ellis Mirko Ellis (4 September 1923 – 11 September 2014) was a Swiss-Italian film, stage and television actor. Born Mirko Korcinsky in Locarno to a family of Lithuanian origin, Ellis moved, after his studies, to Italy, where he made his film debut i ...
*
Andrea Scotti Andrea Scotti (27 August 1931 – 21 December 2003) was an Italian film and television actor. Background Born in Naples, Scotti attended at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, graduating in 1956. During his career he was mainl ...
*
Dada Gallotti Dada Gallotti (born 8 April 1935) is an Italian actress. Born in Milan, Italy, as Alda Gallotti, she was one of the most active character actresses in the 1960s and 1970s. She appeared in several spaghetti Western films under the pseudonym Dia ...


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