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Directed by a Syrian-American film producer and director Moustapha Akkad, Lion of the Desert (1980) is an historical epic detailing the final years of Omar Mukhtar (Anthony Quinn), a Bedouin teacher turned guerrilla leader who led a 20-year resistance against Italian colonization in Libya. Set in the 1930s, the film portrays the struggle between Mukhtar's ragtag forces and General Rodolfo Graziani (Oliver Reed), who was appointed by Benito Mussolini (Rod Steiger) to brutally crush the rebellion.

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