“The Desert of Salvation ” ( The Sheltering Desert ) is a 1992 film directed by Regardt van den Berg from the eponymous autobiographical book [1] by Henno Martin .
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| Genre | biography film adventure movie drama |
| Producer | Regardt van den Berg |
| Producer | Anna Linda du Tua |
| Author script | Henno Martin Roderick Mann |
| In the main cast | Jason Connery Rupert Graves Joss ackland |
| Composer | Bruce cassidy |
| Film company | Vine international pictures |
| Duration | 105 min |
| A country |  South Africa  Great Britain  Ireland |
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| Year | 1992 |
| IMDb | ID 0183767 |
Content
Story
Three German friends - two geologists and a pilot of a small plane, after the Nazis came to power in Germany, leave for South Africa . When Europe smelled of war, the pilot leaves home and enters the Luftwaffe , while the other two, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn , remain. With the outbreak of war, British authorities interned all men in the German community in camps for displaced people. Friends did not want to obey and, taking with them supplies, a radio and a dog, left for the desert. British counterintelligence, suspecting them of espionage, begins the search ...
Cast
- Jason Connery - Henno Martin
- Rupert Graves - Herman Korn
- Joss Ackland - Colonel Johnston
- Kate Normington - Brigitte
- John Carson - Harding
- Franz Dobrowski - De Kock
- Michael Brunner - Zeller
- Gavin Hood - Willie
- Will Bernard - Cop
- Glenn Sworth - Grobbelaar
See also
- Seven Years in Tibet (film)
Notes
- ↑ Henno Martin. The Sheltering Desert . - Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1958.
Links
- Official movie website
- Plot of the film
- “The Sheltering Desert” on the Internet Movie Database
- Internet Archive - The Sheltering Desert (1958)
- Two Books: The Sheltering Desert - A novel by Henno Martin