Did you know that this 37-year old Italian movie "is based on Dino #Buzzati's novel 'The Tartar Steppe'" published in #1940 ? and this "novel tells the story of a young #officer, Giovanni Drogo, and his life spent #guarding the Bastiani Fortress, an old, #unmaintained border fortress" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tartar_Steppe !reading