Watch The Desert of the Tartars (1976)

Quality: SD
Genre: Drama, History, War
Director: Valerio Zurlini
Starring: Jacques Perrin, Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma, Helmut Griem

Writers: Dino Buzzati, Andre G Brunelin, Jean Louis Bertuccelli
Release date: 29 Oct 1976
Countries: Italy, France, West Germany
Languages: Italian
Runtime: 140 min

The Desert of the Tartars (1976) As his first assignment, lieutenant Drogo is sent to an isolated fortress on the borders of a desert and of a range of high mountains. The mission of the garrison is to prevent a possible incursion by the fearsome Tartars, coming from beyond the desert. Some fellow officers are eagerly awaiting an attack; some no longer want to believe in it; others take advantage of the vague threat to further their career. All of them are sacrificing everything -- health, youth, friends, family -- for a distant military ideal: leading the defence against the onslaught of the enemy. But in the vast emptiness surrounding the fortress, nobody has ever sighted the Tartars...