Across the Desert
Across the Desert 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. 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
- 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