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Rated
PG
Runtime 173 min
Ratings
75% critics Rotten Tomatoes
93% audience Rotten Tomatoes
Genre Biography, Drama, History
Release 05/16/81
Actors Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger
Directors Moustapha Akkad
In Fascist Italy pre-World War II, the cruel General Rodolfo Graziani is directly assigned by Benito Mussolini to fight in the colonial war in Libya to vanquish the Arab nation. However, his troops are frequently defeated by the national leader Omar Mukhtar and his army of Bedouins. But the Butcher of Ethiopia and Libya uses a dirty war against the natives, slaughtering women, children, and aged people, to subdue Mukhtar.
Genre Biography, Drama, History
Release 05/16/81
Actors Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger
Directors Moustapha Akkad
In Fascist Italy pre-World War II, the cruel General Rodolfo Graziani is directly assigned by Benito Mussolini to fight in the colonial war in Libya to vanquish the Arab nation. However, his troops are frequently defeated by the national leader Omar Mukhtar and his army of Bedouins. But the Butcher of Ethiopia and Libya uses a dirty war against the natives, slaughtering women, children, and aged people, to subdue Mukhtar.