The Desert of the Tartars

Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.

The Desert of the Tartars is a 1976 drama war movie directed by Valerio Zurlini, starring Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma, Helmut Griem. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.5/10 from 3,018 votes and runs 2h 20m.