Drama

Once in the Desert

DramaWar

The ancient Syrian city Palmyra has recently been liberated from ISIS.

Year

2022

Duration

2h 1m

IMDb

5.9

Trailer

Cast

Andrey Kravchuk

Director

SB

Sergey Borodinov

Pavlyak

Pavel Chinaryov

Zhilin

Igor Gordin

General-mayor

Pyotr Kharchenko

Saper gruppy Zhilina

AK

Aleksey Komashko

Zhenikh docheri Shaberova

Vitaliya Kornienko

Doch Zhilina

GK

Gleb Kozlyayev

Saper gruppy Zhilina

Aleksandr Metyolkin

Makarskiy

SM

Samvel Muzhikyan

Salman

EN

Ekaterina Nesterova

Dzhamilya

AP

Anna Potebnya

Doch Shaberova

Polina Pushkaruk

Zhena Zhilina

Aleksandr Robak

Shaberov

Oleg Vasilkov

Doznavatel

ZA

Zakaria Al Yazidi

Riyad

AA

Arif Aliev

Writer

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Comments

10 comments

adilassilJul 19, 2024

hasona_alfallahJul 16, 2024

Boy OxJul 16, 2024

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PAy3HJMay 3, 2024

relax and enjoy

Salah G. HamedFeb 20, 2024

Minan DésiréMar 23, 2023

source: Once in the Desert

🔥Rachid Akhdim🔥Feb 16, 2023

English dubbed russian movies, seems like the producers think we are all analphabets that cant read cc's, stupid that is... but if you like horendous explotions, insane shootouts and tactics on the battle filed combined with the love of russian military machine stuff then this film will fit like a glove. The rest is just palmyrian camels of a lovestory that tries to creep through the needlehead opening or trying to get laid the alibaban way, its dry and coarse as a petrified forest in the desert, so go for the explosives, theyre the best. Russians usually do make good war movies, but this syrian conflict commemoration was far from what i expected. It lasts 30 minutes too long thinks the grumpy old man, but a small recommend still.

Omashola OburohFeb 16, 2023

source: Odnazhdy v pustyne

YoofiandJaneFeb 16, 2023

Palmyra/Once In The Desert is a interesting, enjoyable movie about the Russian intervention in Syria or more specifically about the life of Captain Shaberov a D'Miner/Sapper. He is an experienced D'Miner who is training a group of Syrian soldiers in D'Mining. The storyline is really good, it has a pretty major plot twist later on that the viewer won't see coming, and that will have you saying "Why? Just why?", like seriously when it was revealed I was so sad and heartbroken. Still a solid, enjoyable storyline following the adventures of Captain Shaberov in Syria. The movie even has a really nice romantic arc to it, I would have thought trying to include a romance and romantic storyline would take away from the rest of the movie and the seriousness of the job and dangers a sapper must face, but the romance angle was worked in really well in such a way that while you may be a bit surprised at first like I was you'll really like it as well looking back at it. The cast all seemed to fit their roles really well and put on enjoyable performances. Aleksandr Robak who plays Captain Shaberov is does a good job portraying a veteran sapper, father trying to reconnect to his daughter and a man who finds love in the middle of the Syrian war. Pavel Chinaryov is an annoying rookie captain, but by the end he isn't to bad and the actor does a good job. Ekaterina Nesterova plays Jamilya, A Syrian woman and Captain Shaberov's love interest. The actress is Russian(I'm assuming by her name) yet she plays a Syrian woman and does a really good job of it as well, albeit one who says her father is Russian and her mother Syrian therefore she is mixed. She also looks really middle eastern/Syrian to me in the movie and I wouldn't have guessed that she was a Russian actress at all. So really good job overall with her casting and the performance she delivered. The fighting scenes, explosions, blood and guts and all that, looks and feels very real, so props to the director and team there as well. Great VFX and SFX. Anyway overall Palmyra is a enjoyable war movie that does a great job of depicting the life of a Russian Sapper in Syria. It has a good storyline, a lovely romantic angle, great fight scenes, explosions and the like. A well deserved 8/10 from me. P. S. I watched a English dubbed version of the movie unfortunately. The Russian parts were dubbed into English but the Arabic parts are all still in Arabic thankfully. Would definitely have preferred watching the film in it's original language though.