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Dominican Rep. Hawk of the Nile
- Original title
- Lo sparviero del Niloaka
- AKA
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- Hawk of the Nile
- Year
- 1950
- Running time
- 84 min.
- Country
Italy- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Vittorio Gassman
Silvana Pampanini
Enzo Fiermonte
Folco Lulli
Saro Urzi- Jone Morino
- Enzo Biliotti
- Virginia Balestrieri
- Oreste Fares
- Pina Alpern
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- Music
- Cinematography
Tino Santoni (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Adventure | Africa
- Synopsis
- In the first half of the nineteenth century the young Leila left Paris, where she was educated, to go to Cairo to collect the inheritance of her late grandfather, a rich Egyptian pasha. Cousin Ibrahim, who administers the land properties in a dishonest manner with the complicity of his trusted Yusuf, gives the banker Micropulos the research rights in sapphire deposits located in the territory of the Beni Amer Bedouins, making them and Leila believe that they are drilling artesian wells, thus obtaining the approval of Rachid, the young sheikh of the Beni Amer. He, who went to Cairo to renew the pact that allows his people to live on the lands granted them, meets Leila and falls in love with her. Releases land administration to Ibrahim and Yusuf; these, after having commanded the delivery of the weapons, provoke the Beni Amer with the intent to drive them from their land and set them against Rachid. He, informed of the betrayal, goes to the place but is attacked by his people, believed to be the author of the general malaise. In an attempt to capture, he falls into a cliff and is believed dead. Some time later Leila goes to the Bedouins to ascertain the situation...
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