I've only ever had the chance to see this film once in a cinema years ago but it's stuck with me. On the face of it, the plot is not very interesting- soldiers holed up in a remote fort in a non-place waiting for an enemy who never turns up... but the locations are incredible, the score is by Ennio Morricone and there is a constant tension between the characters and within themselves... they are just waiting around for the war to begin. The real war is within themselves.
Review of The Desert of the Tartars
