''Ursus and the Tartar Princess'' ( it, Ursus e la ragazza tartara, french: La fille des Tartares, also known as ''Tartar Invasion'') is a 1961 Italian-French
peplum film
Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum (pepla plural), is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or Biblical epics mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages. These films attempted to emulate the big-budget ...
written and directed by Remigio Del Grosso and starring
Yoko Tani and
Ettore Manni.
Plot
The young Polish prince Stephen goes on a mission together with the mighty Ursus, but they are captured by the Tartars.
During the days of his captivity Stefano falls in love with Ilia, a Tatar girl daughter of the chief. But the girl is already promised to the son of the Great Khan, so a duel arises between the two rivals.
The Tartar is mortally wounded, so Ursus, Stefano and Ilia take the opportunity to flee to the Polish camp where a battle soon breaks out, in which Stephen's people win.
Cast
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Yoko Tani as Princess Ila
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Ettore Manni as Prince Stefan
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Joe Robinson as Ursus
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Roland Lesaffre
Roland Lesaffre (26 June 1927 – 3 February 2009) was a French film actor.Turk p.380 He appeared in many films directed by Marcel Carné.
Selected filmography
* ''La présidente'' (1938)
* ''L'embuscade'' (1941)
* ''La Marie du port'' (1950) - ...
as Ivan
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Maria Grazia Spina
Maria Grazia Spina (born 3 June 1936) is an Italian television, film and stage actress.
Life and career
Born Maria Grazia Spinazzi in Venice, Spina debuted as an actress with the theatrical company Stabile di Trieste, then worked with the comp ...
as Amia
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Akim Tamiroff
Akim Mikhailovich Tamiroff, russian: Аким Михайлович Тамиров (born Hovakim Tamiryants; October 29, 1899 – September 17, 1972) was an Armenian-American actor of film, stage, and television. One of the premier character ac ...
as Khan of the Tartars
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Tom Felleghy
Tom Felleghy (born Tamás Fellegi; 26 November 1921) is a Hungarian-born Italian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1958.
Filmography
References
External links
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1921 births
Possibly living people
Hungarian ma ...
as Suleiman
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Andrea Aureli as Ibrahim
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Ivano Staccioli as Prince Ahmed
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Gianni Solaro as Polish War Leader
References
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''Ursus and the Tartar Princess''at
Variety Distribution
1960s fantasy adventure films
Peplum films
Sword and sandal films
French fantasy adventure films
Italian fantasy adventure films
1960s Italian-language films
1960s French films
1960s Italian films
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