Across the Desert

Across the Desert (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. 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

 * 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