''Taras Bulba, the Cossack'' () is a 1962 Italian

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directed by

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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 ...

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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 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

as Taras Bulba *

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 *

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 ...

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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