Yeah I know, but horses used to die, stuntmen used to die or be gravely injured. And the cost to reproduce scenes like this today would be terribly cost prohibitive.
@@VRmission38 Hell organizations like the SAG would boycott nowadays. Some kind of integrity and realism is being lost though. These stuntmen/extras knew the risks
I've loved this movie since I was a very young child. The music has long been one of my favorite soundtracks, esp. this piece. Was delighted to find it online.
Totally agree with comments below, no cgi, real people, real horses, real mountains (Andes) in the background. What a spectacle! Years ago I had the great pleasure to work with Producer Terry Jones, Jr, (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, among other big credits). I remember driving around with him one day on a movie in the 80's and he shared some stories of working on Taras Bulba as a young 2nd AD. He was riding on the camera car that shot these scenes. Sure we may chuckle at seeing the dirt road (and some tire tracks) but the overall exhilaration of filming hundreds of horsemen galloping at full speed across the "Russian Steppes" (actually the high desert of Argentina near Salta) more than makes up for that oversight. I could kick myself for not writing down what he told me, I just remember him saying the Argentinian army and authorities were great to work with, and also some stories of near disasters with organizing this scene. Naturally the chance for some of the Argentine rank and file to be in a Hollywood movie was too good to be true, they must've had a blast!
@@new_svitoladскажи ещё кому-нибудь - "Калмыцкий лес", "Ростовская чаща", "Астраханская тайга"... пусть над тобой посмеются. И потом, вся Новороссия от Казачьей Лопани и до Измаила, это веками отвоёванная у вассала Османской империи Крымского ханства, Русская земля. Запорожцы же "прославились" лишь тем, что предавали русского царя то туркам, то татарам, то полякам, а то и самим шведам. За что и были, после последнего предательства и бегства частью в Турцию, частью переселены Екатериной на Кубань и Терек.
Epic movie making. Saw this at the Roosevelt Field theater on LI with my parents the year it opened. My Russian father was moved by his ancestors of the Steppes. Once a Cossack, always a Cossack. And Pop was a Cossack at heart.
Zaporozci-people from Zaporizhiezhia, the cradle of modern Ukrainians, that is currently occupied partially by Russia, which claims there are no Ukrainians there.
I did Tecumseh out door theater..... we used 150 lbs of black powder each day, Calvary charges, battles all on stage outside. Actors got hurt, I almost lost my thumb in a fight scene against the character of general Harrison during the main fight scene of the show. He came down with his sword,.......the stage lights went out for an instant and he came down on my thumb ........... we kept on fighting and I finished the show that night. So that guy has no idea. Pencil pusher. ,
Una escena épica y virtuosista. Enhiesta los pelos por su electricidad y por nuestra electricidad. ¿Que eran escenas riesgosas? Sí, como todo en la vida, salvo que no se salga de la propia jaula... No menos cierto es que NO OBLIGABAN A NADIE A PARTICIPAR, excepto los caballos, pero ¿qué no viene haciéndose o se hizo desde el albor de las "civilizaciones" el guerrear montados en ellos hasta entrado el siglo XX? Yul Brynner: 🙌🇷🇺. Nikolái Gógol, tremendo escritor, aunque la peli no retrata bien ni la historia ni la obra en la que se basa...
How well I remember Dad taking us kids to see this when it hit the theaters, and what an impression it made on me, rousing score and all. Thanks for posting this classic sequence!
I read somewhere a long time ago that this scene was filmed in Argentina and that Argentina loaned many men from it's national army and a lot of volunteers were gathered together with many horses to enable the scene to be made. It was said that they all had a great time doing it.
There is a scene in movie wth Yul talking to his enemy face to face with a gaucho standing in the middle facing the camera and smiling as though mocking the audience.
This scene makes me think of my Pop and his cousins in Brooklyn and Port Washington, where they grew up and spent summers together. They would do anything for each other, and they did so right to the end of their lives.
I read somewhere a long time ago about the making of this film that the producers wanted to actually film it on the Russian steppes but were denied permission by the Russians. IN Argentina, they found countryside that resembled the Russian steppes and filmed it there. To make this ride scene, they had many volunteers from among Argentinians who worked as gauchos as they wanted to do the ride. The Argentinian Government also provided a large number of soldiers from it's army who could ride horses and also helped arrange the provision of horses. Back when this film was made, there was no CGI and there was considerable logistical problems involved with crowd scenes, more especially when large number of horses were also involved. Apparently, also the rumble from the galloping horses could be heard from quite a few miles away and people, not knowing what the noise was, thought that it was big thunderstorms. That's what I read years ago about the making of the film.
@@johnfothergill1581 yes .. along with Horse Soldiers movie, Peter Gunn, Wyatt Earp, Sugar Foot, 77 Sunset Strip, Sugar Foot, RifleMan, Zorro, Combat, Bat Masterson, Cheyanne, Disney, How the West Was Won movie, I Dream of Jeanie, Colt 45, Lone Ranger, Bewitched, Roy Rogers, I Spy, Taras Bulba of course, Davey Crockett theme. Memorable T.V. programs and movies,
I saw Taras Bulba at the theater when I was a little kid. I'd searched for the out-of-print soundtrack album for a few years, finally found a copy and purchased it ($27 stereo, a mono version was a few dollars less). I played it once, recorded it on cassette, listened all the time in my VW. Later, CD soundtrack came out, purchased that too, has one or two tracks different. The Ride to Dubno is a true classic scene.
As soon as the music opened, slow & quiet, I got a chill - loved this as a boy. Real cinema filmed in Argentina w/ horses, talented riders, and landscape available. I wanted to be Yul Brynner. I now have the moustache. The old Popeye cartoon w/ Bluto as “Abu Hassan” has a scene with riders and song similar to this!
It's amazing that the Cossacks had such a sophisticated military organization that they could coordinate multiple large units making their rendezvous with perfect timing, with no one unit having to stand around waiting for another unit, all while everybody was at the gallop, in the days before any sort of electronic communications devices existed. Snarky jokes like this one aside, maybe each Cossack war band had hilltop sentries to alert the war band to the approach of allied bands--whose dust clouds could be seen miles away--to which they had pledged mutual aid. Maybe, weeks before the actual march on Dubno, horseback messengers between war bands had spread the word to be at a certain place at a certain time to effect rendezvous. Implausibilities aside, I loved this sequence as a kid and still do.
Dont be fooled by movies, you cant ride a horse this hard and then fight a battle with it. Horse will be winded and as good as dead after a few kilometers of riding this hard. You are right about one thing, they were smart and calculated their battles and chose the spot for the attack making sure their horses were as fresh as possible even delaying battles as long as possible to give them the maximum rest possible,.
Actually its very likely that the kozaks learned their horseback and fighting tactics from the Turkic warriors of the Mongol Horde. The Mongol Horde had very elaborate and effective fighting strategies that made them so successful, and eventually they reached Kyivan-Rus' and killed 90% of the population when they sacked the city. It is this massacre that ended Kyivan-Rus' and dispersed Ukrainian people into rural and semi-nomadic warrior cultures for hundreds of years after. This Mongol massacre likely taught the survivors of proto-Ukraine a new foundational hybrid culture. The depopulation of the Kyivan-Rus' area is likely what caused the rise of Muscovia into modern Russia, because the proto-Muscovite paid tribute to the Mongol Horde and partially allied with them instead of fighting back like the proto-Ukrainians... I guess Ukrainians are still kinda like fight to the death people, while Russians are into imperialism and political games just like back then
This has to be one of my favorite Yul Brenner movies. Probably one of the first movies I have ever seen. They need to make moving movies like this again! Without making up history as they do now.
Stelvis Maximus You don't want to use this movie for historical information. Brynner was born for this role, though. Most movies in the 60s were made for entertainment purposes only. This is one of them. The closest I can think of since then are the "Rocky" movies. They aren't political. The audience can identify with the characters, the fight scenes are exciting, if wildly unrealistic, and you go home without thinking you were cheated by the high price of the ticket. Taras Bulba is like that. It's a "go have some fun at the movies" flick, and you're right, we need more of them.
Except most of this movie is 100% made up. The only truth in it is that the Cossacks did indeed exist, and clashed with the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland a few times between the 16th and 17th century. That's literally it.
@@observer1689 This is a historical fiction. The characters and storyline are made up but the Kozak warriors depicted are a real semi-nomadic army made of Ukrainian people that fought the Polish-Lithuanians, the Muscovites and the Turkish Tatars in real life. They were based in a sich (fortress) on an island in the middle of the Dnipro River. They were all free men but had no wives and were lead by a Hetman (something like an army general-king that led free wild Ukrainians united to fight off the foreign invaders
We all know at the end of the ride that the men will give the horses their reins and go all out, we know this... But still impressive to watch... The logistics of filming this scene were amazing. Hundreds of horses and men which had to be fed 3 times a day... The sabers most men in the scene carried were rubber, you can see them flopping as they wave them. cost and safety was the purpose of this.
Every Father's Day, like today, I think of Pop who was Russian. We saw this movie together with my Ma the year it debuted. He told me that the Cossacks, from whom he was descended on the Steppes of Russia, were the greatest fighters the world has ever seen. I miss you Pop, and our years of hunting together with all of your cousins, who were more brothers than cousins. I learned a lot from all of you.
No cgi. Most everything had to actually be done. Lots of stunt men on horseback. No flying somersaults and whirling around in the fight scenes. Yul Brynner Sigh. Edit: what great info and back story added in comments about this truly epic scene, and how it was filmed in Argentina, with actual gauchos and Argentine army joining in the ride. What fun that would have been. Thanks to all who made the movie possible.
Це прекрасний фільм, з деяким мінусом для Голлівуду, якого не дуже цікавлять деталі, історія, тощо, головне екшн, запорожці, це Українці, Тарас Бульба, Українець, головний герой однойменного роману Українського письменника Миколи Гоголя, і у цьому шедеврі Української літератури дійсно показаний незламний дух Українського народу, який підтверджується сьогодні боротьбою за свободу, за демократію, за правду проти рашистських нацистів Московії путіна, але перемога буде за Україною, Слава Україні, слава вільним народам, геть тиранію
Never underestimate Ukraine. ZAPAROSHCHI. WE have that sprit again today. The brave soldiers of Ukraine are fighting for freedom, for family. God bless you my freinds.
La película se filmó en la precordillera de la provincia de Salta, en el noroeste de Argentina. Los extras fueron soldados de caballería del Ejército Argentino. Un dato frívolo: La noticia que recorrió el mundo por entonces fue el romance que inició Tony Curtis con Christine Kaufmann, la actriz con la que compartió cartel. The film was filmed in the foothills of the province of Salta, in northwestern Argentina. The extras were cavalry soldiers from the Argentine Army. A frivolous fact: The news that traveled the world at that time was the romance that Tony Curtis began with Christine Kaufmann, the actress with whom he shared the bill.
These kozak warriors are not Russian. They are Ukrainian and this real historical army even fought against Muscovy (modern Russia) later after the Polish/Lithuanians fell out of the picture. The Swedish King even allied with the Ukrainian kozaks to fight against Moscow for a while because of the shared ancient Varangian link between Swedish and Ukrainian people. Unfortunately they lost and Ukrainians had to wait til about 1920 to try for independence from the Muscovites again, which also failed quickly until 1991
@@UhtredOfBamburgh You are right, I forgot that they were Ukrainians. The present-day Ukrainians fighting Putin's army are great warriors as was the Cossacks. I hope they defeat the Russians.
Está película se filmó en Salta Argentina, por qué no se podía filmar en la zona histórica que era Ucrania por estar en ese momento detrás del telón de acero y los escenarios naturales erab parecidos a Ucrania.
Запорожці! [Ukrainian - zaporotsi; russian - zaparatsi] Zaporozhians in English. Zaporozhzya is located in the southern Ukraine. And Dubno is located in Rivne region in the north-western Ukraine.
Yes, people should understand that these are UKRAINIAN, not Russian Cossacks being portrayed here. Too bad one of them shouts "хорошо!" (in Russian) instead of the Ukrainian equivalent...
Molto originale e creativa la sceneggiatura di questa sequenza: le consuete inquadrature (di fronte ai cavalieri, di fianco alla fila dei cavalli, ecc) sono accessorie per l'invenzione di mostrare i gruppi che a mano a mano si aggiungono; così da comunicare il sentimento di una "guerra di popolo". Originali e interessanti anche alcune inquadrature di fianco ai cavalieri, ma all'altezza di corpo e zampe dei cavalli.La ripresa è stata girata da una macchia in corsa e non da un carrello su rotaie, come si nota dai piccoli sobbalzi delle inquadrature dalle strisce parallele sull'erba davanti ai cavalieri.
A Fucking glorious piece of cinema history. Anyone if that was Yul on the horse the whole time doing the stunts, it sure looks him having a great time. Today its all stuntmen and CGI.
Allí... Eran todos Gauchos Salteños y con sus propios caballos... Más los de los Infernales de Güemes (Regimiento 5 de Caballería del Ejército Argentino)
The fact that he persuaded six women to marry him plus the fact that last wife was 45 years younger than him and the marriage lasted 12 years until is death, must say something about his sexual ability.
It still gives me emotions. I dream't riding with them "comrades". A true essence of brotherhood. Shakespeare of Henry V said this words: We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition;
the perfect role for yul brinner...epic scene as few can match this feeling!! unfortunately the movie was irregular and the final result was unsatifiying
Rodada integramente en la provincia de Salta, Argentina, con extras gauchos cabalgando sus magnificos caballos, verdaderos centauros de las pampas. Los gauchos argentinos, los mejores jinetes del mundo.
I can imagine that sensation of been between comrades, riding all together against the enemy towards glory.. will ever we experience such feelings? i hope so...
In reality it was much more complicated. Cossacks where mostly infantrymen with small cavalry parties as recon units. Cavalry was too expensive for them. However Hetman Sagaydacny had sacrifice the whole Zaporozian cavalry (3000 men) to win some time for infantry to complete the march and took good position in battle of Khotin.
@@alexandersidorenko9568 yep, i already known that cossacks became mainly horseback units later. In their earlier stages, like zaporozhian cossacks, they fought mainly on foot. My thoughts were on the cavalry ride like that depicted in the movie.
Sirring stuff. Actually filmed in Argentina using gaucho cowboys as Ukrainian Cossacks. Yul Brynner had high hopes for this film, but despite some memorable scenes and music, the final version was a big disappontment for him. For the Ukrainian diaspora, this loose interpretation of Gogol's epic story was nevertheless a boon to the sense of national spirit and pride.
@@irishjw Ukrainians often think the newer Taras Bulba film twists the kozak warriors into being Russians. In real life these kozaks fought against Muscovy (Russia) in a later historical period after Poland and Lithuanian rule fell out of the picture in Ukraine.
