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Immortal Sergeant (1943)
, 1h31Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Children's films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, Thomas Mitchell, Allyn Joslyn, Reginald Gardiner, Melville Cooper
In North Africa, experienced Sergeant Kelly (Thomas Mitchell) leads out a British patrol, accompanied by Corporal Colin Spence (Henry Fonda), an unassertive Canadian. When they are attacked by Italian airplanes, they manage to shoot one down, but it crashes on one of their vehicles, killing eight men. Later, Kelly leads the six survivors on an attack of an Italian armored car, but is seriously wounded. He orders Spence to leave him behind; when Spence refuses to obey, he shoots himself.
Bengasi (1942)
, 1h30Directed by Augusto Genina, Primo Zeglio
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Fosco Giachetti, Maria von Tasnady, Gino Buzzanca, Vivi Gioi, Gabriele Ferzetti, Carlo Tamberlani
The film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Libya was occupied by British forces. Italian inhabitants of Benghazi work to resist the British and discover their military plans. One man, Captain Enrico Berti, appears to be collaborating with the British but is in fact working undercover for Italian intelligence. The film ends with the city being recaptured by Italian troops and their Nazi German allies.
Desert Mice (1959)
, 1h25Directed by Michael Leighton George Relph
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa, Military humor in film, Political films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Alfred Marks, Dora Bryan, Sid James, Reginald Beckwith, Irene Handl, Liz Fraser
Un troupe de l'Entertainments National Service Association déjoue un plan nazi lors de sa tournée en Afrique du Nord.
War Italian Style (1965)
, 1h25Directed by Luigi Scattini
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Political films, Buddy films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Buster Keaton, Ciccio Ingrassia, Martha Hyer, Fred Clark, Lino Banfi, Renato Chiantoni
Two US Marines who are so incompetent that they are sent to the European Theatre of Operations end up in the Battle of Anzio where they face the German's giant artillery piece "Anzio Annie".
El Alamein (2002)
, 1h54Directed by Enzo Monteleone
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Silvio Orlando, Pierfrancesco Favino, Emilio Solfrizzi, Paolo Briguglia, Giuseppe Cederna, Lorenzo Balducci
Narrant la célèbre bataille d'El-Alamein, le film se place surtout du côté italien, car on voit les troupes italiennes encerclées et se battant avec bravoure et l'énergie du désespoir, même en sachant que tout était perdu, tandis que les troupes britanniques ne faisaient que « ramasser les miettes ».
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.
Foxhole in Cairo (1960)
, 1h20Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Spy
Themes Films set in Africa, Spy films, Political films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors James Robertson Justice, Adrian Hoven, Fenella Fielding, Niall MacGinnis, Peter van Eyck, Robert Urquhart
During the Second World War Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has placed two spies in Cairo, at the headquarters of the British Eighth Army. They are able to monitor every move of the British. It falls to British intelligence to hunt down the spies before they do too much damage to the war effort.
The Way Ahead (1944)
, 1h55Directed by Carol Reed
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films set in Africa, Politique, Political films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors David Niven, Stanley Holloway, William Hartnell, James Donald, John Laurie, Leslie Dwyer
In the days after the Dunkirk evacuation in Second World War, recently commissioned Second Lieutenant Jim Perry (David Niven), a pre-war Territorial private soldier and a veteran sergeant of the British Expeditionary Force, is posted to the (fictional) Duke of Glendon's Light Infantry, known as the 'dogs', to train replacements to fill its depleted ranks. A patient, mild-mannered officer, he does his strenuous best to turn the bunch of grumbling ex-civilians into soldiers, earning himself their intense dislike. The conscripts also believe that their sergeant is treating them with special severity; in fact, he is pleased with the way they are developing and has his eye on some of them as potential NCOs. Eventually however, the men come to respect their officer.
The Battle of El Alamein (1969)
, 1h36Directed by Giorgio Ferroni
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Frederick Stafford, Enrico Maria Salerno, Robert Hossein, Michael Rennie, George Hilton, Salvatore Borgese
Au point culminant de son avance en Égypte en 1942, l'armée italienne approche d'El Alamein, où les Britanniques se défendent de pied ferme. Privées d'essence, les forces de l'Axe sont bientôt contraintes à la défensive. Le lieutenant italien Giorgio Borri, un patriote idéaliste qui croit encore en la victoire, est affecté à la division parachutiste Folgore (La Foudre). Son unité est envoyée dans le désert pour y tenir des tranchées et attendre l'inéluctable contre-offensive anglaise.
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.
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.
Touch and Go (1971)
, 1h50Directed by Philippe de Broca
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Marlène Jobert, Michel Piccoli, Michael York, Amidou, Didi Perego, Jean Bouise
En 1942, en Afrique du Nord, une jeune femme (Marlène Jobert) aide un officier anglais (Michael York) à échapper aux Allemands, avec l'aide d'un escroc (Michel Piccoli) et d'un Tunisien (Amidou). Ils vivront mille aventures dans le désert.
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.
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.
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.