Film
Passion in the Desert
United States- Age rating
- PG-13
- Director
- Lavinia Currier
- Year
- 1997
What nature divides, the spirit unites.
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.
Top cast
Directed by
Lavinia Currier
Written by
Honoré de Balzac, Lavinia Currier
