
Desert of Lies
Drama · TV Movie
Overview
The fortunes of two expeditions a century and a half apart become mysteriously linked in the same desolate stretch of Kalahari Desert. In 1848 the Broon family are sent by the London Missionary Society to look for and convert a legendary race of strangely deformed savages. In 1983, a team of three people go off in search of what really happened.
Top Cast


Mick Ford
Mick Ford
Jake
Mick Ford
Jake


Cherie Lunghi
Cherie Lunghi
Sue
Cherie Lunghi
Sue


Tom Bell
Tom Bell
Abel Broom
Tom Bell
Abel Broom


Louis Mahoney
Louis Mahoney
Sylveste
Louis Mahoney
Sylveste


John Matshikiza
John Matshikiza
Bushman
John Matshikiza
Bushman
Elizabeth Bell
Elizabeth Bell
Sarah Broom
Elizabeth Bell
Sarah Broom
Elizabeth Anson
Elizabeth Anson
Esther Broom
Elizabeth Anson
Esther Broom
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