Desert of Lies
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1984-03-13
Runtime: 83 mins
Director: Piers Haggard
Writer: Howard Brenton
Spoken language: English
Genres: Drama, TV Movie
Original title: Desert of Lies
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