The Sheltering Desert is a 1992 South African-British-Irish drama film directed by Regardt van den Bergh and starring Jason Connery, Rupert Graves and Joss Ackland.
Its original German title is "Wenn es Krieg gibt, gehen wir in die Wüste".
In 1935, two German geologists, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn, leave Nazi Germany for South West Africa (Namibia) to conduct field research.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, many male Germans living in South-West Africa are interned in local camps.
They live for over two years in the vastness of the desert like ancient bushmen under indescribable circumstances, facing the challenge to survive and, at the same time, the threat to be detected.