Attentato ai tre grandi

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Attentato ai tre grandi
Directed by	Umberto Lenzi
Produced by	Alberto Grimaldi
Written by	Umberto Lenzi
Starring	Ken Clark, Horst Frank, Jeanne Valérie, Carlo Hinterman, Howard Ross, Franco Fantasia, Hardy Reichelt Fabienne Dali
Release date(s)	1 September 1967
Running time	96 min.
Language	English
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Attentato ai tre grandi (English: Attack on the three large ones) is a 1967 war film set during World War II in Morocco about a German commando group with a mission to assassinate Churchill, Roosevelt and de Gaulle at a conference in Casablanca. 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 (The green desert dogs) in France, as Fünf gegen Casablanca (Five against 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.^[1]