Across the Desert

Across the Desert
Directed by Johann Alexander Hubler-Kahla
Produced by Lothar Stark
Written by Karl May (novel)
Carl Junghans
Starring Fred Raupach
Heinz Evelt
Erich Haußmann
Aruth Wartan
Music by Gottfried Huppertz
Cinematography Georg Muschner
Paul Rischke
Production
company
Lothar Stark-Film
Distributed by NDLS
Release dates
20 February 1936
Running time
88 minutes
Country Germany
Language German

Across the Desert (German:Durch die Wüste) is a 1936 German adventure film directed by Johann Alexander Hubler-Kahla and starring Fred Raupach, Heinz Evelt and Aruth Wartan. It was based on a novel by Karl May. It was the first sound adaptation of a May novel, and the only one to be produced during the Nazi era.[1] Set in the Ottoman Empire during the Nineteenth century, it portrays a series of oriental adventures of the two travellers Kara Ben Nemsi and Hadschi Halef Omar.

It was shot on location in Egypt, and at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin.

Cast

References

  1. Bergfelder p.180-81

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