The first scene after the introduction starts with Mussolini in Italy, who created the Fascist Party in Italy, complaining about his generals’ defeats in Libya. The scene concludes by telling that the characters and the events in this film are real and based on historical facts. This introductory scene is part of historic records that present the rise of fascism in Italy and how it impacted Libya tragically. The film starts by introducing the audience to the historical context of the film. The Italians also committed atrocities - killing of prisoners of war, destruction of crops, and imprisoning populations in concentration camps behind barbed wire. Tanks and aircraft are used in the desert for the first time. Graziani controls Libya with the might of the Regio Esercito ( Royal Italian Army). A teacher by profession, guerrilla by obligation, Mukhtar had committed himself to a war that cannot be won in his own lifetime.
Omar al-Mukhtar ( Anthony Quinn) leads the resistance to the fascists. Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani ( Oliver Reed) as his sixth governor of Libya, confident that the eminently accredited soldier and fascist Grande can crush the rebellion and restore the dissipated glories of Imperial Rome. In 1929, Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini ( Rod Steiger) is still faced with the 10-year-long war waged by patriots in the Italian colony of Libya to combat Italian colonization and the establishment of "The Fourth Shore"-the rebirth of a Roman Empire in Africa.
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The film was banned in Italy in 1982 and was only shown on pay TV in 2009. 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. It was directed by Moustapha Akkad and funded by the government under Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Lion of the Desert is a 1980 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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