At the same time Ivan Ogareff, a Russian ex-colonel, is freed from a prison camp by his lover Sangarre. He leaves for Siberia in civilian clothes, in the guise of a horse trader and under the false name of Nikolai Korpanov. Michael Strogoff, captain of the army of the Tsar Alexander II, is ordered to travel from Moscow to Irkutsk, in eastern Siberia, to inform the Grand Duke Dmitry that the Tartar army is moving to conquer the city. It is based on Jules Verne's 1876 novel Michael Strogoff reinterpreted through the lens of psychological realism. It was an international co-production between Italy, West Germany and France. Strogoff (French: Michel Strogoff, le courier du tsar Italian: Michele Strogoff, corriere dello zar German: Der Kurier des Zaren) is a European adventure film directed in 1970 by Eriprando Visconti.
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