Victoire du désert
/
Victoria en el desierto
/
Desert Victory: the Battle of El Alamein
director:
David MacDonald
/
Roy Boulting
playwright:
J.L. Hodson
actor:
Harold Alexander
/
Winston Churchill
/
Adolf Hitler
/
Bernard L. Montgomery
/
Erwin Rommel
…
genre:
War
/
Documentary
region:
United Kingdom
language:
English
length: 1h
release date: 1943-04-12
IMDb: tt0035796
Overview
A featureless land fit only for war, as the narrator, J. L. Hodson stated in the early scenes: "If war was to be fought then let it begin here". In endless miles of rock-strewn scrub desert, where civilians hardly existed. Desert Victory tells the story of the Allied campaign to drive Germany and Italy from North Africa is analysed, with the major portion of the film examining the battles at El Alamein, including some re-enactment. Won "Best Documentary Feature" at the 16th Academy Awards in 1944.