Across the Desert (German: Durch die Wüste) is a 1936 German adventure film directed by Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla and starring Fred Raupach, Heinz Evelt and Aruth Wartan. It was based on a novel by Karl May. It was the first sound adaptation of a May novel, and the only one to be produced during the Nazi era.^[1] Set in the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century, it portrays a series of oriental adventures of travellers Kara Ben Nemsi and Hadschi Halef Omar.

It was shot on location in Egypt, and at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin.

• Fred Raupach as Kara Ben Nemsi
• Heinz Evelt as Hadschi Halef Omar
• Erich Haußmann as Abu Seif
• Gretl Wawra as Hanneh
• Aruth Wartan as Scheik Malek
• Katharina Berger as Senitza
• Herbert Gernot as Abu Seif's butler
• Franz Klebusch as Plaza men
• Bertold Reissig as Abu Seif's friend

• Bergfelder, Tim (2005). International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-539-2.

• Across the Desert at IMDb