
The Making of Lion of the Desert
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- 1981
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(5.00 / 1 vote)In this power 20th century,
almost every nation
in the world has at some
time been in conflict,
the oppressors and the oppressed,
the victors and the vanquished
The people of war are tragic
indictment of our civilization.
A time, when much of
the world was looking
for ways to increase their
influence, power and riches.
Full of dreams for the restoration of
the glory that was Rome,...
in 1911 Italy joins
the hunt for territory.
Libya on the other side of the
Mediterranean sea is the target.
Landings were made at Tripoli,...
Benghazi, Zvora, Cert,
Derna and Tobruk.
The local population
fighting on many fronts,
made fierce and resolute
resistance to the
invaders, thus bringing
the war to a stale-mate.
1922 saw a dramatic change in Italy.
The beginning of Mussolini's
era of dictatorship.
The conflict in Libya escalated
as more and more fascists might
was thrown against the scithening
resistance of the local population.
Mussolini (The Duce):
"We will overrun the earth..."
"and then we will take the flag
of fascism to the throne."
Ready, charge!
More... More... I don't understand.
If we defeated the Bedouins,
why are we still hanging them?
Why do I have to ford troops
into a victory I have already won?
Oh, I wish my generals were right,
two different dispatches,
one telling themselves of their
glorious victories
and one telling me of their defeats.
Can't go on..
I will not let it go on!
Here...
This green, this subtle green..
That's your prize, the
rest is brown paper.
Just need someone bold
enough to roll it up.
Graziani.
Come with me.
20 years.
wasted on this war.
I sent 5 governors to
Libya in 5 years.
No...the military logic of fascism
will not be compromised!
It's wrong with Alway, Giada,
Bayonets, Bannu, Don.
What we are fighting in
reality is just tribesmen, ghosts.
I want their leader
brought here.
I want them brought to me and
I want the revolution crushed.
- What's his name?
- Omar Mukhtar
- Omar?
- Omar Mukhtar.
Omar Mukhtar.
You know general,
those colonists that we sent
over especially from the south,
they cost us leader
for leader almost
as if we put them up
at the grand hotel.
Now something must be wrong.
No...
I will not have a
handful of Bedouins...
stop the progress of
forty million Italians.
I'll give you Libya, General.
At least you have a name
that will frighten them.
May I say, my Duce, that
when I crush rebellions,
I do so with a clear
conscience ensouled.
What did Mukhtar do before
the rebellion?
He was a teacher.
- A teacher?
- Yes.
I was a teacher.
Be careful you don't end up
as the five who went before you,
taught by him.
Well, I'm a man who likes action...
Go to Libya!
General...
Bring me back Mukhtar!
Bribe him or break his neck!
In the name of God,
the compassionate, the merciful
It is the god of mercy who
has man known the Koran,
he created man and
told him speech.
He set to the sun and the
moon in their courses.
He raised the sky up and set
Stop right there!
Why do you think we begin
every chapter of the Koran with
"God, the merciful", uh?
Because, one of the names
of God is mercy.
That's right, yes.
And how..
does God show his mercy?
He taught..
people how to speak.
How to speak..
that's right.. yes.
And then there was something
else in what we read,
Can anybody...
can you tell me what that was?
- It was...
- Here, let me give you a hint...
- It was the what?
- It was the balance.
That's right...
the balance.
And why did God
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