RUNTIME : 104 mn

GENRE : animal (nature, adventure)

DISTRIBUTOR : Pathé

CREW

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY : Luciano Tovoli

SET DESIGNER  : Giancarlo Salimbeni

EDITOR : Franco Arcalli, Raimondi Crociani

SOUND : Bernard Bats

THE DESERT OF THE TARTARS

RELEASE DATE JANUARY 12th 1977

Fiction

On the border of a central European Empire in the year 1900, the young Lieutenant Drogo, freshly out of military school, is assigned to the Bastiano fortress, located in an outpost of the Empire overlooking a huge barren expanse: the desert of the Tartars.

A FILM BY  : Valerio Zurlini

MUSIC  : Ennio Morricone

SCREENPLAY  : André G. Brunelin, based on the eponymous book of Dino Buzzati

WITH : Vittorio Gassman, Jacques Perrin, Philippe Noiret, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Laurent Terzieff, Giuliano Gemma, Helmut Griem, Francisco Rabal et Max von Sydow

AWARD AND NOMINATIONS : Grand Prix of the french cinema 1977
2 Donatello awards 1977: best film and best director

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