Passion in the Desert
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1h 31m
Directed by Lavinia Currier • Drama • 1998 • US • English
Starring Ben Daniels, Michel Piccoli, Kenneth Collard
From the controversial novella by Honoré de Balzac comes the story of a young army officer who finds himself stranded in the Sahara desert. Left to his own devices, Augustin Robert (Ben Daniels) would surely die...but after stumbling upon mysterious ruins housing a wild leopard, the man and beast form an inextricable bond.
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