• Director: Moustapha Akkad
  • Release Year: 1981
  • Production Country: Libya, United States
  • Language: English

Lion of the Desert

Description

A Berber teacher leads a decades-long guerrilla war against Italian forces determined to make Libya the "Fourth Shore" as part of their "glorious" rebirth of the Roman Empire. The teacher's honorable conduct wins the admiration of the general who must fight him, but not the freedom of his people.

Themes

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (1883 – 1945), Omar Mukhtar (1862 – 1931), Rodolfo Graziani (1882 – 1955), Omar Mukhtar (1862 – 1931), Bedouin, Italian Army, Guerrilla warfare, Resistance, War crimes, Religion, Islam, Imperialism, Modern warfare, Partisans, Kingdom of Italy (1861 – 1945), Fascism, Death camps, Forced relocations, Nomadism, Cultural conflicts, Italian Libya (1911 – 1943), Indigenous peoples, Banned films