The Desert of the Tartars

Year: 1976

Runtime: 140 mins

Language: Italian

Director: Valerio Zurlini

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Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.

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