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Lion of the Desert
1981 film by Moustapha Akkad
Lion of the Desert (alternative titles: Omar Mukhtar and Omar Mukhtar: Lion of the Desert) is a 1981 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 1981, the film has received positive reviews from critics, but performed poorly at the box office, gaining revenues of US$1.5 million worldwide despite having a $35 million budget.[3][4] The film was banned in Italy in 1982 and was only shown on pay TV in 2009.
Plot
In 1929, Italianfascist dictator Benito Mussolini (Rod Steiger) is still faced with the 10-year-long war waged by patriots in the I