2 Films & TV Shows Set In Egypt During The 1800s

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  Passion in the Desert

  🇪🇬 Egypt 🇫🇷 France The 1800s The 18th Century

  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.

  Released in 1997 • 91 minutes
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  Adieu Bonaparte

  🇪🇬 Egypt 🇫🇷 France The 1800s

  This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet.

  Released in 1985 • 115 minutes