After a plane crash a young boy and his dog wander through the Kalahari desert.After a plane crash a young boy and his dog wander through the Kalahari desert.After a plane crash a young boy and his dog wander through the Kalahari desert.
Wynand Uys
- Dirkie
- (as Dirkie Hayes)
Lady Frolic of Belvedale
- Lolly
- (as Lady Frolic Of Belvedale)
Jan Bruyns
- Colonel
- (as Jan Bruijns)
Johan du Plooy
- Jack
- (as Johan Du Plooy)
Jacques Loots
- Doctor
- (as Jaques Loots)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaApart from the practical difficulties associated with filming in the desert, what made this movie even more of a feat was that it was filmed twice; once in Afrikaans and once in English.
- ConnectionsRemade as Papam Pasivaadu (1972)
- SoundtracksWait for Tomorrow
(Title Song)
Sung by Edwin Duff
Written by Jimmy Stewart, Doug Ashdown and Eric Gross
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This film and Walkabout - desert freak out
Like many others I saw this film as a young child in the early 1970s, in a cinema in suburban Sydney, Australia, at the age of 7. At the time, I really wasn't sure of the origin of what I was watching. Given the South African accents, which sound a bit like Australian accents, I thought it was set in a stranger version of Australia. With African animals. Well, just the creepy African animals like hyenas, as the nicer African animals like elephants and giraffes never make an appearance. This doppelgänger Australia quality only heightened the truly, deeply disturbing nature of the film. Was it possible perhaps that we had hyenas in the Australian desert? And the Kalahari desert men did look like Aboriginals to me, as a child. I distinctly remember the scene where the rock knocks him into the pool and the water becomes bloody. Well, what child could forget that? Time went by and no one I spoke to about this film had the faintest idea what I was talking about - no one else had ever seen it, or heard of it. Which of course made it all the more perplexing. Then a few years later, around 1973, I saw my second freaky desert film. Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout. It had strange echoes of Lost in the Desert. I thought it was perhaps a remake. I could tell Walkabout was definitely set in Australia, and then I wondered if Lost in the Desert had been an Australian film after all. Or maybe it didn't actually exist. Perhaps I had dreamed a simpler version of Walkabout, before I had even seen Walkabout. Walkabout of course was every bit as disturbing as Lost in the Desert for a child. But you know what? Between Lost in the Desert, and Walkabout, I grew to love both cinema, and the desert. And I thank both film directors for creating films about children that spoke to me as a child more strongly than a dozen Disney movies.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Lost in the Desert
- Filming locations
- Kalahari Desert, South Africa(filmed in South-West Africa in the Namib Desert Etosha Pan Kalahari Gemsbok Park)
- Production companies
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- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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