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1977 · 101 mins · Romanian
Directed by
Mircea Drăgan
Starring
Stuart Whitman, Woody Strode, Ray Milland, Gordon Mitchell, Mircea Diaconu, Constantin Dinulescu

When a massive blaze erupts at an oil field deep in the Sahara Desert, an American specialist in oil‑field fire suppression and his crew are dispatched to contain it. As the inferno spreads, they discover they must also confront greed and political corruption that threaten the operation.

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