Cinema Resistenza: LION OF THE DESERT "Il Leone del Deserto"

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.

---  Wikipedia