Desert Victory (1943)
April 12, 1943Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Harold Alexander
Self
Winston Churchill
Self
Adolf Hitler
Self
Bernard L. Montgomery
Self
Claude Auchinleck
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Erwin Rommel
Self
Alan Brooke
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alan Cunningham
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henry Harwood
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Arthur Tedder
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joseph Goebbels
Self - Shaking Hands with Rommel
Wilhelm von Thoma
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
David MacDonald
Director / Producer
Roy Boulting
Director
Richard Best
Editor
J.L. Hodson
Writer
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Wiki.
Desert Victory is a 1943 film produced by the British Ministry of Information, documenting the Allies' North African campaign against Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps. This documentary traces the struggle between General Erwin Rommel and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, from the German's defeat at El Alamein to Tripoli. The film was produced by David MacDonald and directed by Roy Boulting who also directed Tunisian Victory and Burma Victory. Like the famous "Why We Fight" series of films by Frank Capra, Desert Victory relies heavily on captured German newsreel footage. Many of the most famous sequences in the film have been excerpted and appear with frequency in History Channel and A&E productions. The film won a special Oscar in 1943 and the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel took sections of the film for its battle footage.