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Lion of the Desert
film by Moustapha Akkad
Lion of the Desert (alternative titles: Omar Mukhtar and Omar Mukhtar: Lion of the Desert) is a epichistoricalwar film about the Second Italo-Senussi War, starring Anthony Quinn as Libyan tribal leader Omar Mukhtar, a Bedouin leader fighting the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), and Oliver Reed as Italian General Rodolfo Graziani, who defeated Mukhtar.
It was directed by Syrian-American director Moustapha Akkad and funded by the Libyan government under Muammar Gaddafi.[2]
Released in May , the film has received positive reviews from critics, but performed poorly at the box office, gaining revenues of US$ million worldwide despite having a $35 million budget.[3][4] The film was banned in Italy in and was only shown on pay TV in
Plot
In , Italianfascist dictator Benito Mussolini (Rod Steiger) is still faced with the year-long war waged by patriots in the Italian colony of Libya to combat I