1991
Burning Shore
(a tv mini-series)
German Title: "Glühender Himmel"
Italian Title: "Il diamanti di montagni"
(aka "Mountain of Diamonds")

Derek de Lint as "Lothar de la Rey"

The story is about Centaine De Thiry (played by Isabelle Gelinas), a young French aristocrat in the war torn area of northern France. A daring British aviator, Michael Courtney (played by Jason Connery) falls in love with Centaine but their happiness is short-lived and their dreams of living together in Africa are dashed when Michael dies in battle. Centaine, abandoned and destitute, is determined that the baby she carries will be born in Africa. Her passage to Cape Town is arranged by General Sean Courtney, Michael's uncle, but during the journey, a U-Boat torpedoes the ship and she is cast onto the shores of the Namibian Desert. Lothar de la Rey (played by Derek de Lint) falls in love with the shipwrecked Centaine but they later become rivals in South African society.

Cast:

Isabelle Gelinas - "Centaine de Thiry"
Derek De Lint -"Lothar de la Rey"
John Savage -"Blaine Malcomess"
Jason Connery - "Michael Courteney"
Ernest Borgnine - "Ernie"
Marina Vlady - "Anna Stok"
Valerie Perrine - "Isabella"
Jean-Pierre Cassel - "Louis de Thiry"
Frank Finlay - "Garrick Courteney"
Jennifer Youngs - "Sarah"

Jenny Alpha, John Armstead, Achille Brugnini, Russel Case, Lorenzo Flaherty, Isaac George, Marc de Jonge, Andrea Prodan, Clive Riche, Del Russell, Bobby Rhodes, Marius Yelolo,

Crew:

Cinematography - Sergio d'Offizi
Produced by Gerald Morin
Assistant Director - Malcolm Scerri-Ferrante
Art Director - Frank Vanorio.

Wilbur Smith - personal info and list of novels

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If you live in Europe, check www.eurotv.com every once in awhile to see if "Glühender Himmel" is airing. It has aired before on SAT-1.

Thanks to Jan, movieline.de and the us.imdb.com for helping put together some missing pieces while I was sleuthing to figure out this particular filmography...it took quite awhile to find out all the different titles it was known as!

The complete Derek de Lint filmography was painstakingly reasearched and put together over time from various sources (some of which are NOT - or WERE not at one point - on the web and available to the public) so PLEASE do not copy this and post it on any website. - Thanks! I have no idea if all the info is 100% accurate, if you find a discrepancy, let me know, please!

Thanks to Derek's fellow Dutchman, Richard van Bilsen, again for some of the description information and translations of the titles and for finding some of these titles when they were NOT listed in the International Movie Database, which I have to thank anyway for helping to fill in the blanks on credits here and there.

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