Lost in the Desert
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| Directed by | Jamie Uys |
| Written by | Jamie Uys |
| Produced by | Jamie Uys |
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| Music by | Classical piano |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | South Africa |
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Lost in the Desert, initially released as Dirkie, is a 1969 South African film written, produced and directed by Jamie Uys under the name of Jamie Hayes. It was filmed in Techniscope and Technicolor. Uys himself plays Anton De Vries, a concert pianist whose 8-year-old son Dirkie is the central character. Dirkie is played by Uys's real-life son Wynand Uys, credited as Dirkie Hayes.
The plot was paralleled two years later by the far more successful "Walkabout".