A Far Off Place (1993)

Directed by

Mikael Salomon

Genre

drama film, children's film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 64 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three teenagers must travel across the Kalahari Desert to escape danger after poachers murder their parents. They rely on each other and a bushman guide to survive the harsh landscape.

adventurousharrowingresilientdesolateurgentsurvivalistgrittysuspenseful

What happens

A Far Off Place (aka Far Off Place and Kalahari) is a 1993 American adventure drama film directed by Mikael Salomon (in his directorial debut), and based on Laurens van der Post's works: A Story Like the Wind (1972) and A Far Off Place (1974). The film stars Reese Witherspoon, Ethan Randall, Jack Thompson, and Maximilian Schell. It follows three young teenagers crossing the Kalahari Desert after their parents are killed by a poacher. A Far Off Place was filmed in Namibia and Zimbabwe from May to September 1992. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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