PG2h 53m1981

Lion of the Desert

“He was a man of honor in a war without any.”

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Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces of Benito Mussolini highlights the struggle for Libyan independence and the harsh tactics utilised by the colonisers.

Director: Moustapha Akkad
Writers: H.A.L. Craig, David Butler
Language: English
Country: Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, United States of America, United Kingdom
Release date: 17 April 1981
Budget: $35,000,000
Box office: $1,502,136