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Passion in the Desert(Movie, 1997)

PG-13
| 1h 31min | Genre: Adventure
Passion in the DesertRating: 2.9/5 (with 55 votes)
Passion in the Desert, or Simoom: A Passion in the Desert, is a 1997 film from director Lavinia Currier based on the 1830 short story "A Passion in the Desert" by Honoré de Balzac. The film follows the ventures of a young French officer named Augustin Robert (Ben Daniels) in late 18th-century Egypt during Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign to capture the country. ()
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About Passion in the Desert

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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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Egypt
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 9 languages: German (DE), English (EN), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 08/31/1997
Director: Lavinia Currier
Producer: Jamil Dehlavi
Director of Photography: Alexei Rodionov

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