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The Sheltering Desert

4.8

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Original title

The Sheltering Desert

Year

1992

Running time

105 min.

Country

South Africa

Director

Regardt van den Bergh

Screenwriter

Roderick Mann. Book: Henno Martin

Cast

Music

Bruce Cassidy

Cinematography

George Tirl

Producer

Co-production South Africa-United Kingdom-Ireland;

Vine International Pictures

Genre

Adventure | Based on a true story. 1930s. 1940s. II World War

Synopsis

In 1935 two German geologists, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn, leave Nazi Germany for South-West Africa (Namibia) to conduct field research. At the outbreak of the Second World War, many male Germans living in South-West Africa are interned in local camps. As pacifists the two German scientists refuse to be arrested and flee into the Namib Desert. They live for over two years in the vastness of the desert like ancient bushmen under indescribable circumstances, facing the challenge to survive and, at the same time, the threat to be detected. On the radio they follow the war events in Europe.

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The Sheltering Desert

1992

Regardt van den Bergh

4.8

(21)