The Tartars

The Tartars (1961)

I tartari

The Tartars Vs. The Vikings!

The Tartars and the Vikings maintain a fragile peace in the harsh landscape of the Russian Steppe. When the leader of the Vikings, Oleg, declines to accompany the Tartars on a campaign against the Slavs, there is an explosion of violence. After Oleg kills the Tartar leader and kidnaps his daughter, the dead man's brother, Burandai, retaliates by holding Oleg's wife, Helga, hostage. The stalemate can be resolved only on the battlefield.

Date of release
1961-04-01
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (13)
Runtime
1h 23m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Drama
Director
Richard Thorpe

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: The Tale of the Destruction of Ryazan

The Tartars/I Tartari is a 1961 Italian-Yugoslavian epic historical Technicolor film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Victor Mature and Orson Welles. It is one of the sword-and-sandal genre films made in Italy in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Production

Filming took place in Rome and Yugoslavia in October 1960. It was filmed using Italian Totalscope anamorphic lenses.

According to Orson Welles, the extended sword fight between Welles and Mature "on which I worked day after day" was shot with no input from Mature.

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