

Taras Bulba
A love story of flesh and fire!
Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $7M
- Box office
- $4M
- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- cossack
- poland
- 16th century
- ottoman empire
- father son relationship
- brother brother relationship
- ukraine
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Produced in
United States of America, Yugoslavia
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical19 Dec 1962
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalU4 Apr 1963
AustriaAT
- Theatrical121 Dec 1962
BrazilBR
- Theatrical121 Jan 1964
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical15 Feb 1963
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1611 Jan 1963
FranceFR
- Theatrical21 Nov 1962
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1221 Dec 1962
IrelandIE
- TheatricalG13 Sept 1963
PortugalPT
- TheatricalM/122 Jan 1964
RomaniaRO
- TheatricalCinematecă3 May 1967
SpainES
- Theatrical25 Feb 1963
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Taras Bulba was released on 21 November 1962.
Audience reviews
3- J7/10
John Chard
8/7/2015
Faith and a good Sabre arm. Taras Bulba is directed by J. Lee Thompson and adapted to the screen by Waldo Salt and Karl Tunberg from a story by Nikolai Gogol. It stars Yul Brynner, Tony Curtis, Christine Kaufmann and Perry Lopez. Out of United Artists, it's a DeLuxe/Eastman Color/Panavision production, with the music scored by Franz Waxman and cinematography by Joseph MacDonald. Loosely based on Gogol's short n…
- W6/10
Wuchak
3/26/2022
_**Cossacks vs. Poles on the steppes of Ukraine (actually Argentina)**_ In the 16th century, Cossacks on the Ukrainian steppe defy their subjugators, the Poles. Yul Brynner plays a hearty colonel while Tony Curtis plays his eldest son, who foolishly falls for a lovely princess in Kiev (Christine Kaufmann). "Taras Bulba" (1962) is based on the first half of the classic novella by Nikolai Gogol, published in 18…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
11/19/2024
This tale of the 16th century Cossack uprising against the Poles who had betrayed them years before is kicked off by a memorable, rousing theme from Franz Waxman. Unfortunately, it's largely downhill from here. Yul Brynner never looks comfortable in the title role. He has decided to fight the Poles on his own terms by sending his two sons to university in Kiev to learn their ways. His son "Andrei" (Tony Curtis) falls…
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