Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 140 min
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- France, Germany, Italy
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- In Italian — subtitles on.
The story
Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.
- based on novel or book
- tatars
- desert
- fortress
- destiny
- tartar
- meaning of life
- 1910s
- war
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jacques Perrin
Sten. Giovanni Drogo
Vittorio Gassman
Filimore
Giuliano Gemma
Mattis
Helmut Griem
Lieutenant Simeon
- Philippe Noiret — General
- Francisco Rabal — M.llo Tronk
- Fernando Rey — Nathanson
- Laurent Terzieff — Ten. Pietro Von Hamerling
- Max von Sydow — Cap. Ortiz
- Jean-Louis Trintignant — Magg. Med. Rovine
- Shaban Golchin Honaz — soldato Lazare
- Giuseppe Pambieri — Ten. Rathenau
- Bryan Rostron
- Kamran Nozad
- Manfred Freyberger — caporale
- Directed
- Valerio Zurlini
- Written
- Valerio Zurlini, André G. Brunelin
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 96 ratings
- Studio
- Fildebroc, Cinema Due, Les Films de l'Astrophore, Reggane Films, FIDCI, Corona Filmproduktion
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
