Khartoum

(1966)

★ 6.3 IMDb · 130 votes

Genres: History, War, Adventure

Year: 1966

Runtime: 134 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Eliot Elisofon, Basil Dearden

Cast: Чарлтон Хестон, Лоренс Оливье, Ричард Джонсон, Ральф Ричардсон, Александр Нокс, Johnny Sekka, Michael Hordern, Zia Mohyeddin, Marne Maitland, Nigel Green

Plot

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.

After an Egyptian Army, commanded by British officers, is destroyed in a battle in the Sudan in the 1880s, the British government is in a quandary. It does not want to commit a British military force to a foreign war, but they have a commitment to protect the Egyptians in Khartoum. They decide to ask General Charles "Chinese" Gordon (Charlton Heston), something of a folk hero in the Sudan, as he had cleared the area of the slave trade, to arrange for the evacuation. Gordon agrees, but also decides to defend the city against the forces of Mohammed Ahmed el Mahdi (Sir Laurence Olivier), "The Expected One", and tries to force the British to commit troops.