Taras Bulba [videorecording] / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; a Harold Hecht presentation ; screenplay by Waldo Salt and Karl Tunberg ; directed by J. Lee Thompson ; produced by Harold Hecht.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Widescreen.
Publisher:
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment,
Title from container. Tony Curtis, Yul Brynner, Sam Wanamaker, Brad Dexter, Guy Rolfe, Perry Lopez, George Macready, Ilka Windish, Vladimir Sokoloff, Daniel Ocko, Vladimir Irman, Christine Kaufmann. From the book by Nikolai Gogol. Videodisc release of the 1962 motion picture.
Summary:
Set in the Ukraine of the 16th century, a powerful Cossack chieftain is determined to regain his land from treacherous Polish invaders. Despite bitter dissension in the ranks, he is soon leading his soldiers into savage warfare. But further conflict erupts when his headstrong son, Andrei, falls deeply in love with a Polish girl. Spectacular battle scenes highlight the nonstop action, arriving at a shattering climax in which father and son must ultimately confront the rift between them.
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