Tony Curtis, Yul Brynner, Sam Wanamaker

A "Romeo and Juliet" story that takes place in the late 16c. Ukraine. Taras has settled into comfortable farm life after years of adventures and swashbuckling with his cossack companions. Though not w...( read more  read more... )ealthy, he is able to send his son Andrei away to a Polish school. At this time the Poles are overlords of Ukraine and the origin of the cossacks is struggle of the Ukrainian serfs to free themselves and their land of Polish domination. Toward this end Taras hopes that his son will be educated in the ways of the enemy. Instead, Andrei falls in love with the daughter of a Polish nobleman, setting the stage for a clash between love, family honor, and a struggle for national identity.

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Unrated, 2 hrs. 2 min.

Directed by: J. Lee Thompson

Release Date: December 19, 1962

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DVD Release Date: May 1, 2007

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  • December 14, 2008
    This is a good movie
  • August 6, 2008
    Perhaps my favorite epic of all time.
    Cossacks drinking, dancing, wenching, killing & pillaging. Curtis a Cossack by way of Brooklyn, but who cares?
  • July 6, 2008
    Flawed epic set in the 16th Century
  • April 14, 2008
    One of those rare BIG BUDGET(?) movies where a cast of thousands was really a cast of thousands and just not CG warriors. Tony Curtis tho seems mis-cast for the role...
  • November 23, 2007
    ok its flawed but just enjoy the boys own story
  • November 22, 2007
    I saw this when I was about 13 and didn't stop crying for 2 days. I still remember it as if it was yesterday - an indellible impression!
  • June 5, 2007
    Love this movie. It's a Romeo and Juliet type of story set in Poland. My favorite scenes were when Christine Kauffman was reading under a tree and Tony Curtis was staring at her, when they met in secret at the market and went dancing by some lake, when Christine's brother caught ...( read more)her staring out of her balcony at Tony Curtis, the part when Tony Curtis was drunk and almost made out with a gypsey girl, but he saw Christine's face over the gypsey girl. I liked how you can still see the gypsey girls face but Christine's face is transparent and covering the other girls face. That seemed really emotional and I cried. It was so sad they kept using her transparent smiling face over the girl, the castle, and mostly when he was thinking about her. Made me feel like I was Tony Curtis wondering if I'll ever be reunited with my true love. The fact that he was always thinking about her and how he was forced to trade sides so Christine wouldn't be burned at the stake. The ending made me cry for hours. It was so sad. To be next to eachother finally again when the war was over, and Tony (Andrew) was already dead. And how Yul Brynner (Taras Bulba), sees Christine go over to Tony's dead body and mourn. He was probably thinking so this is the girl he was so crazy about. Sad that the last time they were together was when they got caught by the Poles and they were going to burn her. And he spent all that time thinking about her and never saw her again. Not even as he was dying, she came after he died.
  • May 15, 2007
    If your a passionate ukrainian, this is the film to see.
  • April 14, 2007
    the second most sexiest Blad guy that i have ever encountered
  • February 15, 2007
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