Passion in the Desert

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-06-12

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (721 Reviews)

Director:

Lavinia Currier

Genres:

Adventure Drama

Cast:

Ben Daniels Michel Piccoli Paul Meston Kenneth Collard

Writer:

Honorè de Balzac (story)

Lavinia Currier (screenplay)

Martin Edmunds (additional script)

Fullplot:

Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers in acts of barbarism. During combat, Augustin and Jean-Michel are separated from their regiment, and they start wandering through the desert fighting for their life. In one of the canyons Augustin meets a leopard he names Simoom and a strange bond between them appears.

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