S.O.S. Sahara (1938)

Directed by

Jacques de Baroncelli

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany, France

Runtime

1h 18m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of men are stranded in the Sahara desert. Their pasts and secrets emerge as tensions rise in the harsh environment.

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What happens

S.O.S. Sahara is a 1938 German drama film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli and starring Charles Vanel, Jean-Pierre Aumont and Marta Labarr. The film was made in the French language, produced by the French subsidiary of the German studio UFA. It was shot on location in Algeria. The screenplay was based on a play Men Without a Past by Jean Martet. Martet's credit was removed from the film during the Nazi occupation of France. He later brought a court case against UFA to re-establish his rights to the film. It was remade in 1962 as Station Six-Sahara. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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