The Sheltering Desert

The Sheltering Desert

🎞️ Movie 105 min ZA
โ˜… 6.1 /10 1991

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. Their adventure comes to an end when Hermann Korn starts suffering seriously from malnutrition.

Cast

Jason Connery
Jason Connery
Henno Martin
Rupert Graves
Rupert Graves
Hermann Korn
Joss Ackland
Joss Ackland
Col. Johnston
Kate Normington
Kate Normington
Brigitte Muller
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John Carson
Harding
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Frantz Dobrowsky
Corporal de Kock
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Michael Brunner
Zoeller
Gavin Hood
Gavin Hood
Willi
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Will Bernard
Policeman
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Glenn Swart
Constable Grobbelaar
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Bruce Cassidy
Composer
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George Tirl
Cinematographer