Queen of the Desert
Where in Morocco
- Ouarzazate: Wikipedia's filming-location category
- Marrakech: Wikipedia's filming-location category
- Merzouga and Erg Chebbi:
Herzog shot background scenes and establishing shots without the principal cast in Merzouga, Morocco and Petra, Jordan.
Wikipedia - Erfoud:
Filming also took place at Marrakesh and Erfoud and continued till February 26, 2014, in Ouarzazate, Morocco.
Wikipedia
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Queen of the Desert is a 2015 American epic biographical drama film written and directed by Werner Herzog and is based on the life of British traveller, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer and political officer Gertrude Bell. The film follows Bell's life chronologically, from her early twenties until her death. It was Herzog's first feature film in six years after his 2009 film My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
Sources, checked 2026-11-15
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Also shot there, and the sets to visit
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves1954 · Taroudant, Ouarzazate, AgadirThe Man Who Knew Too Much1956 · Ouarzazate, MarrakechLawrence of Arabia1962 · Ouarzazate, Aït BenhaddouSodom and Gomorrah1962 · Marrakech, OuarzazateGreed in the Sun1964 · Ouarzazate, MarrakechOedipus Rex1967 · Ouarzazate, Aït Benhaddou, ZagoraThe Man Who Would Be King1975 · Ouarzazate, Aït BenhaddouBanzaï1983 · OuarzazateThe film mapEvery title shot in Morocco, with filtersVisiting the film setsA route to Ouarzazate, Aït Benhaddou, Essaouira and Tangier
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