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The Tartars (1961)

The Tartars poster
Original title
I tartari
Directed by
Ferdinando Baldi, Richard Thorpe
Genre
drama film, action film, adventure film, sword-and-sandal film, medieval film, historical film
Country
Yugoslavia, Italy
Runtime
1h 23m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A chieftain leads a tribe of Tartars in a conflict against a Viking ruler. The story involves battles, capture, and a struggle for power between the two leaders.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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