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Lion of the Desert

Name: Lion of the Desert
Released: 1980

1980

This epic dramatizes the two-decade guerrilla struggle of Omar Mukhtar, the Bedouin schoolteacher who led Libyan resistance against Mussolini's brutal colonial conquest before World War II. A grand historical war film.

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