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6.3/10   1,227 votes
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Director:
J. Lee Thompson
Writers:
Nikolai Gogol (novel)
Waldo Salt (writer)
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Release Date:
19 December 1962 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | War more
Tagline:
A Love Story of Flesh And Fire!
Plot:
A "Romeo and Juliet" story that takes place in the late 16c. Ukraine. Taras has settled into comfortable... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(6 articles)
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Tony Curtis ... Andrei Bulba

Yul Brynner ... Taras Bulba
Sam Wanamaker ... Filipenko
Brad Dexter ... Shilo
Guy Rolfe ... Prince Grigory
Perry Lopez ... Ostap Bulba
George Macready ... Governor
Ilka Windish ... Sofia Bulba
Vladimir Sokoloff ... Old Stepan
Vladimir Irman ... Grisha Kubenko
Daniel Ocko ... Ivan Mykola
Abraham Sofaer ... Abbot
Mickey Finn ... Korzh
Richard Rust ... Capt. Alex
Ron Weyand ... Tymoshevsky
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Taras Bulba (Austria) (West Germany) [de]
Kosakken Taras Bulba (Denmark) [da]
Taras Bulba (Finland) [fi]
Taras Bulba (France) [fr]
Taras Bulba (Spain) [es]
Taras Bulba (Brazil) [pt]
Taras il magnifico (Italy) [it]
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Runtime:
122 min | 124 min (TCM print)
Country:
Yugoslavia | USA
Language:
English | Latin
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track | Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Canada:PG (Ontario) | UK:U | West Germany:12 (nf) | USA:Approved (PCA #20294) | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Chile:14 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15
Filming Locations:
Disney Ranch, Santa Clarita, California, USA more
Company:
Avala Film more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Tony Curtis met Austrian actress Christine Kaufmann on the set of this film and later married her. more
Goofs:
Plot holes: Cossacks never entered the city of Dubnoe. They were chased by the Poles that came to the town's aid. more
Quotes:
Taras: My son, why? Why?
Andrei Bulba: I did what I had to do.
Taras: From the day I plunged you in the river to give you life, I loved you as I loved the steppes. You were my pride! I gave you life. It is on me to take it away from you.
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Movie Connections:
Remade as Veer (2010) more

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11 out of 16 people found the following comment useful.
Taras Bulba, 4 May 2005
10/10
Author: markiw from United States

Taras Bulba is a movie about the Ukrainian Cossacks and not Russian Cossacks! The Ukrainian land was independent and not part of Czarist Russia in the 16th century, the time the movie portrays.

Taras Bulba shows the fighting spirit of the Ukrainian Cossacks fighting to defend Ukraine form their enemies. My favorite part of the movie was when young Andrij Bulba asks his father Taras Bulba why the Ukrainian Cossacks did not wear armor like the Poles. Taras showed his son a cross around his neck and told his son that that is the Ukrainian Cossacks armor.

It is a movie about the best European fighters of that era and is a very fun and exciting movie.

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