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.
Zaporozci-people from Zaporizhiezhia, the cradle of modern Ukrainians, that is currently occupied partially by Russia, which claims there are no Ukrainians there.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
@@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,
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.
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
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
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.
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;
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.
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.
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...
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.
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)
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.
What are you talking about? Radosław Sikora is Polish historian, why should I believe a Pole, that wrote history on Cossacks? This movie is based on a book, which was written by Nikaloi Gogol. There are also plenty of books about Cossacks in Ukraine and Russia, which proves that Cossacks were fearless, good warriors. They were bandits for Poles, because they didn't want to submit to Poles, didn't want to give their land to Poles, and reject Orthodox faith by taking Catholicism.
I agree, the scene really is a tour de force, particularly when you reflect on the fact that there are hundreds of real horses and fine riders involved. Horses as well as riders deserve our admiration and respect!
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.
Nunca se va a poder juntar a tanta cantidad de jinetes y caballos reales... (Gauchos Salteños, cada uno con sus propio Caballo) y los del Regimiento Infernales de Güemes...
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.
@@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.
All done with live action. No CGI. Thousands of horses and extras. Amazing.
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
Бред,козаки и были и будутf
At any moment, I half expected to see Jerry Cologna in this gathering, saying "EXCITING, ISN'T IT?"
@@VRmission38 It can be done. People like you just deny and deny. Suppose you like an electric junk vehicle.
no cgi . real people . real horses .
I am truely impressed !
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.
When they shouted Zabarozi. We would stand and shout with them. Great movie for 10 year old kid.
Zaporozci-people from Zaporizhiezhia, the cradle of modern Ukrainians, that is currently occupied partially by Russia, which claims there are no Ukrainians there.
@@ivantysyn2Vanechka, byd' laska define " Ukrainian ".
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!
Why Russian steps? Zaporozhye is very heart of Ukraine. Steps begins in Ukraine, there is no steps in Russia as it is.
@@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.
What a brilliant scene... Gives me goosebumps 👌
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.
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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...
Some Fantastic Epic movies Made Around This time...1960 Spartacus 1961 El Cid 1962 Taras Bulba
My grandfather was a real Russian Cossack born in 1889 he really liked this film
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.
Its all about the music. That hush slow tempo in the beginning and gathering as with the riders. Beautiful.
Exacto...
Franz waxman FTW
One of the best scenes in movie history.
I still remember this scene! I saw Taras Bulba when it came out at the theatres. I was 7 or 8 years old. Made a big impression on a little boy! 😂
1st saw this movie 60 years ago, as a kid.
This scene is STILL epic. 👍👍
One of the absolute most exciting scenes in any movie!
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.
Absolutely amazing! I was teenager when I saw the first time. Never forgot!
Saw this movie in the theatre when I was eight - music + images, with strong actors, = an indelible memory!
Yul Bryner one of the greatest actors of all time. Truly an amazing scene
Iconic movie scene
Además de gran actor era guapisimo
Юлий Борисович Бриннер!Царствие Небесное!Вечная Память
And he sings!
Fantastic music goes well
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!
My favorite scene from this fantastic movie..
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!
this the best scene in the movie - the music & the horseback riding is great - yul is even riding & looking like he's having a ball
Los extras: Gauchos Salteños y sus propios caballos...
Más el Regimiento "Infernales de Güemes" del Ejército Argentino.
undoubtedly , a masterpiece of film music.
You all should see Alexander Nevski
what a charge!!!!! they are certainly kicking up a whole lot of dust in some of those scenes!!!!!! I Loved the music...
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.
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.
true
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.
People like you should be banned
Javier Guzman o
@@javierguzman5451 la tenes esa escena? la estuve buscando y no la encontre jajajja.
👍 🎥 thank you. Yul. Brynner and cast
È un film, bellissimo, mettetelo completo in italiano, se lo merita!!!!!!! 👍
Great movie and great soundtrack!
I also remember this scene as a kid.....absolutely brilliant
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.
Nick Slichenko, that's interesting, thanks!
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
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.
t that time there was no Ukraine country, those Cossacks were Russian.
They weren’t Ukrainian they were Rus.
No matter what the bots say, they were Ukrainian! Gogol who wrote the book was born in Ukraine! Slava Ukrainii!
@@Vlad65WFPReviews Have you never heard of the Kievan RUS lol? Slava Rossiya.
All those horses physically shake the mountain that the camera is on! Insane.
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.
What Russian Steppe ?
@@noway2434 The Siberian Steppes.
That rumble was the sound of the Cossack Host
IT'S AMAZING ITS A PITY THIS KINDE OF PICTURES WILL NEVER BE DONE AGAIN
Ukrainian steppes....they are Ukrainian Kozaks Bulba is Ukrainian as well and Holol the author
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.
I must get this on DVD - loved it when I was a kid .
I always remembered this theme from when I was a boy in the 1960's and never forgot it. Great Movie
It sticks from my childhood days also...brilliant
@@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,
@@coporal4 Iconic era in T.V. and movies
@@coporal4 AND JOHNNY QUEST.
@@coporal4 Wait Secret Agent Man, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
OF course it's your favorite scene -- it may be the best scene ever filmed
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.
To further complicate matters, the movie was filmed in Cinerama (three screens wrapping around the theater).
ONE OF WAXMANS BEST WITH ORCHESTRA ON FINE FORM
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.
If your family is of Russian origin your ancestors could have been Russian- not Ukrainian- Cossacks.
My Pop was the same and we have similar last names?
Watched this movie in 1963 when I was about 8 years age
Brilliant, my ancestors from Eastern Europe!
This the scene I best remember as kid too.
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
oh dont be silly it's the ukies who are racist,brainwashed fool
When you're the marshal in Mount and Blade and every lord joins the campaign you just started
One of greatest movies ans scenes! ❤️🔥
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 Erm... They were actually making up a lot of this stuff as well!
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.
+ Stelvis Maximus No studio would do a movie like this because it would cost too much and people would just torrent it anyway.
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
Always loved the movie. And this song has always stayed with me.
When music is this great, it isn't background any more.
Inspirational! But where's the supply train?
I call this scene "A gathering of badasses" 'cos they're all keyed up to fight.
Knowing they have a serious grudge against you and seeing this flow over a hill coming at you half a mile away........ .
@@spikespa5208 Right! Heck, I'd leave town if I saw this coming!
the conquerer is the best version and most realistic version of this story....costumes...hair events....all of it...it is an awesome movie...
Still gives me chills👍🏾👍🏾🤩
Great Film with the late great Yul Brinner.
Agree,one of his best roles for me
This 1 2 bring back memories powerful film 🎥 🎞 see it on tv 📺 👌
It's also good short film about Taras Bulba for pupils.
This is the kind of movie I grew up
A truly great scene.
My most favorite scene since I was a kid
Ditto. He was magnificent, proud actor.
Great movie. Yul Brenner was born in Russia. I am sure he loved playing Taras Bulba.
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.
Awesome Scene with awesome Music !
I wouldn't want to be the Zulus when this lot arrive at Rorke drift.
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;
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.
Mi madre, estaba justo en ese hotel.. HOTEL SALTA...
Cuando se filmó esa película...
Se lo cruzaba a ellos cuando desayunaban.. Yo, recién nacido.
I cant wrap my head around the fact that there is no cossack music in this scene, it is so rich and would fit so well
They were going to Tony Curtis' bachelor party when he married Christine Kaufmann.
Another man who had too many wives.
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.
@@barbarahoblin5884I see he liked his wedding cake,sick of this model ....next...i bet he,s never seen real happiness
@@barbarahoblin5884Or his bank account lol,if he was happy good luck to him
@@barbarahoblin5884 or his remaining $$$$$
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...
@@donaldcarletonjr.9047 Ukrainian "Dobre" sounds very similar to Polish "Dobrze". Still, it would sound better, I agree.
I remember waching the whole film when they broadcast it on British television (BCC1 and BBC2) during the 1980s until the 2000s.
Not a single phone in sight. Just men living in the moment.
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
I'm of Polish descent but God damn I love this movie!
One of Yul's best movies (plus a few more).
Filmed in Argentina !
So?
Shades of The Magnificent Seven as the army grows step by step :-)
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.
Flippin eck this is one hell of a way to start a fight with your kin at your side!!
The way they REALLY ended "Police Academy VII: Assignment Moscow!"
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.
Como me acuerdo de los saporobsky de pequeño xddd nunca olvide esta escena y me encanta esta pelicula
Back when movie soundtracks meant something
this gathering better than all LOTR trilogy
Another great film
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)
Imagine being downstream from this heading right at you. Very impressive and terrifying.
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.
What are you talking about? Radosław Sikora is Polish historian, why should I believe a Pole, that wrote history on Cossacks? This movie is based on a book, which was written by Nikaloi Gogol. There are also plenty of books about Cossacks in Ukraine and Russia, which proves that Cossacks were fearless, good warriors. They were bandits for Poles, because they didn't want to submit to Poles, didn't want to give their land to Poles, and reject Orthodox faith by taking Catholicism.
Mostly correct
A time when REAL people were the movies, not this computer age illusion we live in..
A time when people actually died for a fucking film.
So true!
Yeah, stupid 2000s actors, not willing to give up their lives for the movies ...
I agree, the scene really is a tour de force, particularly when you reflect on the fact that there are hundreds of real horses and fine riders involved. Horses as well as riders deserve our admiration and respect!
Todos... 1.500 Gauchos Salteños... Y cada uno, con su propio Caballo...
If only fighting was always this cool.
this is why movies stink now - this is all real - no computer generated schlock - even Yul is riding & having a ball
Casi todos los jinetes eran gauchos.
@@Cesar_Octavio Con Caballos Propios... tambien, los de el Regimiento de Caballeria 5 "INFERNALES DE GÜEMES"
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.
Más o menos de 1.000 a 1.500 Gauchos y los del Ejército Argentino... Con sus propios Caballos...
My only regret in this life is that i didn't live and die as a true Ukrainian Cossack defending my freedom..........
We'll all get the chance.....are you true christian though? 😉⚔️
You have that chance RIGHT NOW!
@@dccarletonjr right, go get slaughtered for a bunch of billionaire oligarchs. Ukraine is the poorest, most corrupt nation in Europe.
이 장면만 보면 소름이 돋는다.. 너무 좋아.. I love it XD
Está secuencia es una de las mejores del cine
Nunca se va a poder juntar a tanta cantidad de jinetes y caballos reales... (Gauchos Salteños, cada uno con sus propio Caballo) y los del Regimiento Infernales de Güemes...
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.
@@pietroricco7572 that is a bit close to reality ruclips.net/video/542XpqBy4kY/видео.html
This is Argentina and the horsemen are Argentine
"Put Your Faith in Your Sword --- And Your Sword in the Pole!"
Read story Poles caught and burned Taras Bulba alive
@@irishjw Taras Bulba never existed. He was the title of a book by Gogol.
@@peterobbo7512 I never said it was a fact just telling how story ended. As a matter of fact watch the 2009 filmed in Ukraine
@@irishjw OK..My mistake.
@@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.
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