Desert Commandos
Attentato ai tre grandi is a 1967 international co-production made by Italy, Germany and France Macaroni Combat war film set during World War II in Morocco where it was filmed. A German commando group with a mission to assassinate Churchill, Roosevelt and de Gaulle at the Casablanca Conference. The film is a character-based drama that focuses on the German soldiers' various drives and conflicts during encounters with Tuareg nomads, and French and American soldiers. The film was released as Les Chiens verts du désert in France, as Fünf gegen Casablanca in Germany and as Desert Commandos in the USA. Some commenters consider the film to be Umberto Lenzi's best and have remarked the film is notable for having Germans as the heroes and with mixed multi-dimensional characters.
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