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Play Dirty (1969)
, 1h58Directed by André de Toth
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Green, Harry Andrews, Patrick Jordan, Daniel Pilon
In North Africa in World War II, Captain Douglas (Caine) is a BP employee seconded to the Royal Engineers to oversee handling incoming fuel supplies for the British 8th Army. A Popski's Private Army-style colonel (Green) is told he must have a regular officer to lead one of his units on a dangerous mission to destroy an Afrika Korps fuel depot.
Raid on Rommel (1971)
, 1h39Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres War, Action
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Richard Burton, John Colicos, Clinton Greyn, Wolfgang Preiss, Danielle De Metz, Karl-Otto Alberty
Libya 1943. Captain Alex Foster, an intelligence officer with the British Army, allows himself to be captured by a German Afrika Korps convoy transporting British prisoners, pretending to be injured. Once integrated with the prisoners, remnants of a commando force and a medical unit, Foster outlines his plans to take over the convoy, with the help of the prisoners, and redirect it towards the Libyan port town of Tobruk.
Oni Ise Owo (2007)
, 3minutesOrigin Nigeria
Genres Animation
Themes Le désert, Mise en scène d'une plante
Un artisan qui vit au ciel est chassé par ses semblables et tombe sur la terre. Après une longue errance dans des paysages désertiques, il trouve refuge auprès d'un arbre dont il mange un fruit, et devient le gardien d'un groupe d'arbres.
The Black Tent (1956)
, 1h33Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Donald Sinden, Anthony Steel, Anna Maria Sandri, André Morell, Donald Pleasence, Ralph Truman
The film begins with a tank battle where blond-haired Captain Holland (Anthony Steel) is sprawled unconscious in the dunes. When he comes to, he walks over the dunes until collapsing near a Bedouin encampment at an oasis. He is found by the sheik's daughter, Mabrouka (Anna Maria Sandri), who takes him to the camp which consists of several black tents.
The Steel Bayonet (1958)
, 1h25Directed by Michael Carreras
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Leo Genn, Kieron Moore, Michael Medwin, Robert Brown, Michael Caine, Michael Ripper
Tunisia 1943 As the end of the North African Campaign draws to a close, and the German and Italian forces are being pushed back on Tunis. A company of British Infantry are tasked with holding a small Arab farm against an expected last-ditch counter-attack; the farm's water tower will be used as an observation point by a few Royal Artillery spotters. To defend the farm British Lt. Colonel Derry picks a company led by Major Alan Gerrard; these men have been in the thick of the fighting around Tunis and are greatly reduced in number (described by the narrator as down to barely two platoons). So Gerrard's company set out on foot for the farm; on the way they are joined by Captain Dickie Mead and his signaller, Ames. Arriving at the farm, Gerrard's men chase out the occupants and dig slit trenches out in front of the farm. With the water tower and its ladder in clear view, Mead decides to wait until just before dawn to climb the tower while it is still dark. The next day Mead uses the his position to target the artillery onto the German forces, all is going well until the Germans send out a reconnaissance patrol to pin point the observation post, which Gerrard's men dispose of. With the Germans sure of their position, it becomes a test of nerve for Gerrard's men, seasoned troops and new boys alike. All of them stick it out until they are finally ordered to retreat with their job done. Mead decides to stay behind and cover their escape with artillery fire, leading to the death of Sergeant Major Gill and Private Middleditch. And when Mead finally succumbs to German fire, only the wounded Gerrard is left. With the Germans in the farm and his surviving men well on their way to safety, the mortally wounded Gerrard radios for the artillery to totally destroy the farm, killing Gerrard and the Germans' last chance at the same time.
Sounds of Sand (2007)
, 1h36Directed by Marion Hänsel
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films set in Africa, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Le désert
Actors Carole Karemera, Marco Prince, Emil Abossolo M'Bo
Quelque part en Afrique, une famille poussée par la sécheresse part chercher de l'eau.
The New Lot (1943)
, 43minutesDirected by Carol Reed
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Politique, Political films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Robert Donat, John Laurie, Bernard Miles, Peter Ustinov, Raymond Huntley, Geoffrey Keen
En 1942, un convoi de l'armée britannique est en route vers le front dans le désert en Afrique du Nord. Après qu'on a ordonné aux soldats de détruire leurs documents personnels, Harry Fife et Art Wallace examinent une photographie prise à la fin de leur période d'entraînement en Angleterre.
Gates of Fire (1972)
, 1h25Directed by Claude Bernard-Aubert
Origin France
Genres War
Themes Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Georges Aminel, Dany Carrel, Annie Cordy, Juliette Mills, Emmanuelle Riva, Jacques Balutin
En octobre 1942, alors qu'une offensive est lancée contre les troupes de Rommel, un véhicule transportant un médecin et quatre infirmières s'égare dans le désert. Prisonniers d'une unité allemande et conscients que celle-ci va les utiliser pour tendre un piège à la colonne de secours alliée, ils vont s'employer à déjouer ce plan.
Sand Castle (2017)
, 1h52Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Le désert, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Nicholas Hoult, Henry Cavill, Logan Marshall-Green, Tommy Flanagan, Glen Powell, Beau Knapp
En 2003, en pleine guerre d'Irak, un groupe de soldats américains ont pour mission de réparer une station de pompage d'eau dans la banlieue de Bakouba, détruite par les bombes américaines. Matt Ocre, soldat inexpérimenté, découvre les mauvaises conditions de vie de la population locale, ainsi que leur colère.
The Hill (1965)
, 2h3Directed by Sidney Lumet
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films set in Africa, Prison films, Political films, Films based on plays, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Ossie Davis, Ian Hendry, Alfred Lynch
In a British Army "glasshouse" (military detention camp) in the Libyan Desert, prisoners convicted of service offences such as insubordination, being drunk whilst on duty, going AWOL or petty theft etc. are subjected to repetitive drill in the blazing desert heat.
Simon of the Desert (1965)
, 45minutesDirected by Luis Buñuel
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical
Themes Le désert
Actors Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Enrique Álvarez Félix, Antonio Bravo, Glauber Rocha
Simón, the son of Simeon Stylites, has lived for 6 years, 6 weeks and 6 days atop an eight-meter pillar in the middle of the desert, praying for spiritual purification. A congregation of priests and peasants salute him and offer him a brand new pillar to stand on and carry on his mission. He comes down from the pillar and is offered the priesthood, but refuses because he considers himself unworthy, and forsakes his aging mother for the love of God before climbing up his new pillar. He heals an amputee missing both hands, whose first use of them is to slap his child. But the congregation quickly departs unimpressed, leaving Simón alone.
Madman at War (1985)
, 1h48Directed by Dino Risi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films about psychiatry, Political films, Erotic thriller films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Coluche, Beppe Grillo, Fabio Testi, Bernard Blier, Franco Diogene, Claudio Bisio
At the beginning of World War II a young Italian psychiatrist is sent to troops in Libya. When he learns that his commander is a madman he tries to protect the subordinates from harm.
The King Is Alive (2000)
, 1h49Origin Danemark
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Théâtre, Le désert
Actors Miles Anderson, Romane Bohringer, David Bradley, David Calder, Bruce Davison, Brion James
A group of tourists are stranded in the Namibian desert when their bus loses its way and runs out of fuel. Canned carrots and dew keep the tourists alive, but they are helplessly entrapped, completely cut off from the rest of the world. As courage and moral fibre weaken and relationships grow shaky, Henry, a theatrical manager, persuades the group to put on Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear. As the tourists work their way through Henry's hand-written scripts for an audience of only the sand dunes and one distant, indigenous watcher, real life increasingly begins to resemble the play.
The Wedding Song (2008)
, 1h40Directed by Karin Albou
Origin France
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films set in Africa, Feminist films, Politique, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Le désert, Guerre du désert, Films about marriage
Actors Lizzie Brocheré, Simon Abkarian, Karin Albou, Hichem Rostom, Dalila Meftahi
Tunis, 1942. Muslim Nour (Olympe Borval) and Jewish Myriam (Lizzie Brocheré), both sixteen years old, have been friends since childhood. They live in the same building in a humble neighbourhood where their communities live in harmony. Each secretly desires the other’s life. While Nour regrets not going to school like her friend, Myriam dreams of love. In November 1942, the German army enters Tunis. Following the French Vichy government’s policy, the Nazis subject the Jewish population to harsh tax penalties. Tita (Karin Albou), Myriam’s mother, is forbidden work. Overcome by debt, she decides to marry her daughter Myriam to the rich doctor Raoul (Simon Abkarian). Myriam dreams of love vanish in one blow.
Tobruk (2008)
, 1h40Directed by Václav Marhoul
Origin Republique tcheque
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Robert Nebřenský
Jiří and Jan are two Czech soldiers, fighting alongside the Allied forces against the Italians during World War II in Tobruk, Libya. Jiří Pospichal, 18 years old, signs up as a volunteer in the Czechoslovak 11th Infantry Battalion. His naive ideas about heroism are rawly confronted with the hell of the African desert, complicated relationships in his unit and the ubiquitous threat of death. All this takes its cruel toll in the shape of his gradual loss of self-respect and courage.