Bengasi is a 1942 Italian war film directed by Augusto Genina and starring Fosco Giachetti, Maria von Tasnady and Amedeo Nazzari.
It portrays Allied atrocities in "Bengasi Italiana",[3] such as the murder of a peasant by a group of drunken Australian soldiers.
[4] The film is set in 1941 during World War II, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Libya was occupied by British forces.
One man, Filippo Colleoni, appears to be collaborating with the British but is in fact working undercover for Italian intelligence.
The film ends with the city being recaptured by Italian troops and their Nazi German allies.