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Lion of the Desert is a 1981 epic historical war 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.
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This desert epic about a Libyan hero who helped his nation fend off an Italian invasion in 1929. Anthony Quinn stars as Omar Mukhtar, who organizes Libyan fo...
The Lion of the Desert: Directed by Moustapha Akkad. With Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Irene Papas, Raf Vallone. In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar.
The new trailer for the historical epic, "Lion of the Desert" (1981), directed by Moustapha Akkad and starring Anthony Quinn and Oliver Reed, the film that f...
Currently you are able to watch "Lion of the Desert" streaming on Tubi TV, Freevee for free with ads or buy it as download on Amazon Video. It is also possible to rent "Lion of the Desert" on Amazon Video online
Between two worlds wars, a struggle for freedom took place in the African desert. This movie is the historicaly accurate story about the Libyan resistance leader, Omar Mukhtar, who led the Libyan resistance against the Italian opressors from 1911-1931.
Vincent Canby New York Times Lion of the Desert is a canny film, though it's probably a film from which one will take just what one took into it. No expense has been spared.
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Omar al-Mukhtār Muḥammad bin Farḥāṭ al-Manifī (Arabic: عُمَر الْمُخْتَار مُحَمَّد بِن فَرْحَات الْمَنِفِي; 20 August 1858 – 16 September 1931), called The Lion of the Desert, known among the colonial Italians as Matari of the Mnifa, [4] was a Libyan revolutionary and Imam who led the native resistance in Cyrenaica (currently Eastern Libya) under...
Lion of the Desert is a 1981 epic historical war film about the Second Italo-Senussi War, starring Anthony Quinn as Libyan tribal leader Omar Mukhtar, a Bedouin leader fighting the Regio Esercito, and Oliver Reed as Italian General Rodolfo Graziani, who defeated Mukhtar.
Overview. This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives. Moustapha Akkad. Director.
