The Secret of the Sahara

The Secret of the Sahara is an Italian TV Miniseries directed by Alberto Negrin and broadcast in 1987 in seven episodes of approximately 52 minutes each. It shares only the name with the movie by Ewald André Dupont (1953).

Produced by RAI, ZDF, TVE e TF1, later it was shown in cinemas.^[1]

It takes its main inspiration from the books of Emilio Salgari with some elements from Pierre Benoît's Atlantis.

Plot

1925: an American archeologist, Desmond Jordan moves to Africa, seeking the "Speaking Mountain". This brings him into the middle of the Sahara desert, where he meets some deserters from the French Foreign Legion. Jordan escapes with Orso (Bear) from a siege by Ryker, a lieutenant of the battalion and moves towards the mountain. Ryker and El Hallem, head of local tribes, pursue Jordan, who has gone blind approaching the mountain. The lieutenant gives vent to his violence, murdering some locals and sparing only their queen, Anthea. Later she cures Jordan's blindness and, together with El Hallem (redeemed), helps the archeologist to defeat Ryker. Eventually, Jordan, Anthea and Orso discover the secret of the mountain.