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Once In The Desert

2022

121 minutes

WarDrama

Overview

The films follows a Syrian War Explosive Ordnance Disposal team who are targeted by ISIS militants while they prepare the recently liberated historic site of Palmyra to hold a symbolic concert of the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra. The peacekeeping event can only be held in Palmyra that has been severely damaged by the terrorists only if the ancient city and the roads leading to it are defused. The EOD team clears the way one kilometer at a time. But the closer they get to the center of Palmyra, the more destructive the explosives. Tension grows between the young team Captain and the most experienced of the EOD experts. And yet, despite their differences, when the team falls into an ambush and the Captain goes missing, it’s the experienced sapper that sets out to search for him.

Top Cast

Aleksandr Robak headshot

Aleksandr Robak

Pavel Chinaryov headshot

Pavel Chinaryov

Alexandr Metelkin headshot

Alexandr Metelkin

Ekaterina Nesterova headshot

Ekaterina Nesterova

Igor Gordin headshot

Igor Gordin

Polina Pushkaruk headshot

Polina Pushkaruk

Vitaliya Kornienko headshot

Vitaliya Kornienko

Anna Potebnya headshot

Anna Potebnya

Oleg Vasilkov headshot

Oleg Vasilkov

Sergey Borodinov headshot

Sergey Borodinov

Aleksey Komashko headshot

Aleksey Komashko

Samvel Muzhikyan headshot

Samvel Muzhikyan

Zakariya Al-Yazidi headshot

Zakariya Al-Yazidi

Petr Kharchenko headshot

Petr Kharchenko

Gleb Kozlyaev headshot

Gleb Kozlyaev

Ilya Sinkevich headshot

Ilya Sinkevich

Darya Tokareva headshot

Darya Tokareva

Anastasiya Baklanova headshot

Anastasiya Baklanova

Evgeny Ovsyannikov headshot

Evgeny Ovsyannikov

Morad Abdel-Fattakh headshot

Morad Abdel-Fattakh

Konstantin Gaponov headshot

Konstantin Gaponov

Aleksandr Poryvaev headshot

Aleksandr Poryvaev