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LION OF THE DESERT

OMAR MUKHTAR - LÖWE DER WÜSTE

By Moustapha AKKAD

RED SEA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

Drama - Completed 1980


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    • Year of production
    • 1980
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • USA, LIBYA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, ARABIC, ITALIAN
    • Duration
    • 173 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Moustapha AKKAD
    • Synopsis
    • Syrian-American director Moustapha Akkad turns the 20-year struggle against Italian rule, culminating in a desert war against Mussolini’s most brilliant and ruthless Fascist general, into an all-star epic. Despite its Hollywood provenance, the film was rated as surprisingly historically accurate when it came out in 1980. Anthony Quinn plays Omar al-Mukhtar, the lion of the title. An aging Bedouin teacher, he reluctantly left his books in 1911 to lead a guerrilla resistance that was a thorn in Italy’s side until Benito Mussolini came to power in 1925. Mussolini vowed that he would restore the borders of the classical Roman empire in, among other places, northern Africa; a series of battles followed as he tried to complete this task. The Italian troops, led by General Rodolfo Graziani (Oliver Reed), have tanks, planes and modern armaments: the contest is grotesquely unequal, but soon Graziani learns how hard the Libyans are willing to fight for their homeland.
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