Subtitle The Wind And The Lion Official

In reality, the captive was an elderly Greek-American man, not a young widow.

Despite the major plot changes, much of Raisuli's dialogue was taken almost verbatim from historical accounts and Rosita Forbes' 1924 biography, The Sultan of the Mountains . Key Cast and Characters subtitle The Wind and the Lion

The film is a highly fictionalized "romanticization" of the real-life of 1904. In reality, the captive was an elderly Greek-American

Set in 1904 Morocco, the story centers on the kidnapping of an American widow, , and her children by Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli , a charismatic Berber chieftain. subtitle The Wind and the Lion

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt , seeking re-election, uses the incident to demonstrate American military power, coining the phrase "Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead!".