Lost in the Desert

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Lost in the Desert
DVD cover
Directed by	Jamie Uys
Written by	Jamie Uys
Produced by	Jamie Uys
Starring	Wynand Uys Jamie Uys Pieter Hauptfleisch
Music by	Classical piano
Distributed by	Ster-Kinekor Pictures Columbia Pictures
Release date	1969 (1969)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	South Africa
Languages	English Afrikaans

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".