Across the Desert
Appearance
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Directed by | Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla |
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Produced by | Lothar Stark |
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Music by | Gottfried Huppertz |
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Distributed by | NDLS |
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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 Hübler-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 travellers Kara Ben Nemsi and Hadschi Halef Omar.
It was shot on location in Egypt, and at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin.
Cast
[edit]- Fred Raupach as Kara Ben Nemsi
- Heinz Evelt as Hadschi Halef Omar
- Erich Haußmann as Abu Seif
- Gretl Wawra as Hanneh
- Aruth Wartan as Scheik Malek
- Katharina Berger as Senitza
- Herbert Gernot as Abu Seif's butler
- Franz Klebusch as Plaza men
- Bertold Reissig as Abu Seif's friend
References
[edit]- ^ Bergfelder pp. 180–181
Bibliography
[edit]- Bergfelder, Tim (2005). International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-539-2.
External links
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Categories:
- 1936 films
- Films of Nazi Germany
- German historical adventure films
- German black-and-white films
- 1930s historical adventure films
- 1930s German-language films
- Films directed by Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla
- Films set in the 19th century
- Films based on German novels
- Films based on the Orient Cycle
- Films shot in Egypt
- Films set in deserts
- Films shot at Johannisthal Studios
- Tobis Film films
- Films set in the Ottoman Empire
- 1930s German films
- Films scored by Gottfried Huppertz
- 1930s German film stubs