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Dust Devil is a British film of genre Thriller directed by Richard Stanley released in USA on 12 october 1992 with Zakes Mokae
Dust Devil (1992)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 12 october 1992
Length 1h43
Directed by Richard Stanley
OriginUnited-kingdom
Themes Films set in Africa
Rating62%
Dust Devil is a 1992 horror film written and directed by Richard Stanley. The film was described as being like "Tarkovsky on acid" by Steve Beard of The Face.
Synopsis
Joe Niemand (John Matshikiza), a Sangoma near Spitzkoppe in Namibia, begins a tale that states "back in the first times, in the time of the red light, Desert Wind was a man like us. Until by mischance, he grew wings and flew like a bird. He became a hunter, and like a hawk, he flew to seek his prey. Taking refuge in those far corners of the world where magic still lingers. But having once been a man, so does he still suffer the passions of a man, flying in the rages sometimes, and throwing himself down like a child, to vent his wrath upon the earth. The people of the great Namib have another name for those violent winds that blow from nowhere. They call them Dust Devils.Actors
Zakes Mokae
(Ben Mukurob)
Robert John Burke
(Dust Devil)
Chelsea Field
(Wendy Robertson)
Richard Stanley
(Transforming Dust Devil in Dream Sequence (uncredited))
William Hootkins
(Capt. Cornelius Beyman)
Marianne Sägebrecht
(Dr. Leidzinger)
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