When Emir Feofar Khan, leader of the Tartar hordes, takes up arms and invades the steppes of Eastern Siberia, Czar Alexander II of Russia entrusts the brave officer Michael Strogoff with a dangerous mission.
Production
Yugoslavia standing in for Siberia — gorgeous fake geography
Costume
Tartar hordes in full technicolor excess
Acting
Curd Jürgens' jawline doing heavy lifting
Director
Carmine Gallone
Curd Jürgens
Michael Strogoff
Geneviève Page
Nadia Fedoroff
Jacques Dacqmine
The Great Duke
Sylva Koscina
Sangarine
Gérard Buhr
Henri Blount
Louis Arbessier
Czar Alexander II
Fernand Fabre
General Vassieff
Michel Etcheverry
General Krisloff
Paul Demange
Telegraph Clerk
Valéry Inkijinoff
Feofar Khan
Françoise Fabian
Natko
Henri Nassiet
Ivan Ogareff
Sylvie
Marfa Strogoff
Jean Parédès
Alcide Jolivet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Carmine Gallone shot this in Yugoslavia because Soviet cooperation was impossible in 1956 — the Cold War made authentic Siberia a no-go.
This was one of several 1950s European co-productions mining Jules Verne for spectacle, part of a brief trend before Bond stole the adventure mantle.
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