# Taras Bulba (1962)

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**Runtime**: 119 min
**Genres**: Adventure, Romance, History, War, Drama
**Directed by**: J. Lee Thompson
**Written by**: Karl Tunberg, Waldo Salt
**Starring**: Tony Curtis, Yul Brynner, Christine Kaufmann, Sam Wanamaker, Brad Dexter, Guy Rolfe

> *A love story of flesh and fire!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Poor Andrei’s love life gets tangled up in 16th-century geopolitics. The son of a Cossack warlord must pick between family loyalty and a Polish sweetheart when Poles run the Cossack pastures. He comes out the other end with an identity crisis and a very sore back.

**Mood tags**: epic

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