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The Somali Dervish
Released
4h 30m
1/1/1985
so - SO
Centering on the revolutionary Dervish State and its influential leader, Muhammad Abdullah Hassan (the "Mad Mullah") is an epic on the grandest scale. The film follows Hassan's life from his roots as a humble mullah to a revolutionary anti-colonial leader that fought off the British Empire for more than two decades.
Drama
Actors

Osman Mahaud Omar
Muhammad Abdullah Hassan

Yusuf Haji Adan
Haji Suudi

Hassan Abdulle
Ismail Mire

Mohamud Ise Omar
Abdalla Shihiri

Peter Sorivener
Richard Corfield

Norman Pritchard
Gibb

Andrew Hayman
Archer

Ali Khan
Pestalozza

Johnson
Sir Reginald

Mark Crocker
General Rudolf Slatin

Robert Koepp
Commissioner Cordeaux

Russ Milleson
General Manning

Peter Hesham
Colonel Swayne

Gary Bivings
Colonel Plunkett