Cinema Resistenza: LION OF THE DESERT "Il Leone del Deserto"
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FREE EVENT
Wed, 23 Apr at 6pm for dinner 7- 10pm film
Lion of the Desert
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.
Directed by: Mustafa Akkad
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger
Lion of the Desert (alternative titles: Omar Mukhtar and Omar Mukhtar: 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. It was directed by Syrian-American director Moustapha Akkad and funded by the Libyan government under Muammar Gaddafi
The film was banned in Italy in 1982 and was only shown on pay TV in 2009.
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