Year: 1978
Runtime: 127 mins
Language: German
Director: James Fargo
Budget: $14M
Based on James Michener’s novel, this epic adventure‑drama follows a young American embassy official dispatched into the Middle‑Eastern desert to locate a US senator’s missing daughter. She has abandoned her husband, a colonel in the Shadom, to join a nomadic tribe. The diplomat finds her, joins the caravan, and tries to convince her to return.
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