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By Radiator Perlman

Updated 18 March 2023

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television series

The Secret of the Sahara

Released	3 January 1988 (35 years, 5 months ago)

Director	Alberto Negrin
Genre	film based on literature
Composer	Ennio Morricone
Country of origin	Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Spain

About The Secret of the Sahara

The Secret of the Sahara is an Italian television miniseries directed by Alberto Negrin and broadcast in 1988 in four episodes of approximately 90 minutes each. A version comprising seven approximately 50-minute episodes also exists. Produced by RAI, ZDF, Televisión Española e TF1, a condensed version was later shown in cinemas. It takes its main inspiration from the books of Emilio Salgari with some elements from Pierre Benoît's Atlantis.