Sahara (2005 film)

Sahara is a 2005 AmericanSpanish actioncomedy adventure film directed by Breck Eisner that is based on the bestselling book of the same name by Clive Cussler. It stars Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn and Penlope Cruz.

The film begins with a prologue set in Richmond, Virginia in 1865, showing the ironclad CSS Texas, carrying the last of the Confederacys treasury, as Captain Mason Tombs runs a Union blockade.The film then moves to the present day, where World Health Organization doctors Eva Rojas and Frank Hopper are investigating a disease that is spreading across Mali, Africa. Assassins, accompanied by a corrupt Tuareg named Zakara, attempt to murder Eva, but she is rescued by Dirk Pitt, from National Underwater and Marine Agency, who was diving nearby. ........

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