Passion in the Desert (1997)

Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist JeanMichel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleons Egyptian campaign Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypts great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers in acts of barbarism During combat Augustin and JeanMichel 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