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Released
1969 · FILM

Dirkie

Few have ever entered the deadly, mysterious Kalahari, and lived to reveal its secrets!

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
84 min
AdventureDramaThriller

Synopsis

An 8-year-old boy and his dog are left to face a vast desert wasteland alone after a plane crash, while an army of men and machines penetrate the desert searching for them. Based on true events.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 15

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Dave BurmanScored by Gilbert Gibson

Also known as

  • Den Tod vor Augende
  • Lost in the Deserten

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