I saw that Chiwetel Ejiofor directed a movie called “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind”. At first I wondered if it’s a remake from a movie I vaguely remember. It is not.
On to the movie I can’t seem to find:
Two boys are stranded in the desert. (Plane crash? or are they abandoned?)
After initial despair, they find a half buried sail boat, and scrap it together putting wheels on it, so they can “sail” across the desert.
I saw this in my childhood / early teens, so late 1990s, early 2000s, on Austrian television, or German cable. It was dubbed to German, but given the setting of Africa?, there’s every chance it’s a French production.
Please help me find this movie!
Sounds like Flight of the Phoenix
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377062/?ref_=tt_urv
hmm… looks like too many people of the wrong age
is the result i find, but apparently meena has been afk 😛
Could it be Duma?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duma_(2005_film)
This looks oddly plausible!
I’ll see if I can find it anywhere and give it a watch to see if that jogs my memory.
(none of the bits I’ve seen on imdb have the desert sailboat)
Maybe this will help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhLJaBfM1dk
after a week of Covid, I’ve now managed to watch the actual movie.
I feel like I might have watched this movie, but I can’t honestly tell certain it’s not the one I’m looking for here. The land sailing scene in that youtube video is all there is in the movie. I feel like in the movie that I remember, it was far more significant.
I was obsessed with cheetahs when I was a kid, so I sure hope I would’ve retained the memory that one of the boys was a man and/or a cheetah. but, hey, I don’t know how brains work. Or if my works, at all.