title: Palmira (film)
text: # Palmira (film)
  
  Palmyra (Russian: Пальмира, romanized: Palmira, lit. 'Palmyra'), or (Russian: Однажды в Пустыне, lit. 'Once in the Desert') is a 2022 Russian war film directed by Andrei Kravchuk, tells about the sappers who work the Russian military operation in Syria.
  
  It was theatrically released on February 17, 2022.
  
  ## Plot
  
  The film is set in May, 2016. The film tells about the Russian sappers of the demining detachment who were preparing Palmyra for the concert of the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Aleksandr Robak as Shaberov
  * Pavel Chinaryov as Zhilin
  * Aleksandr Metyolkin as Makarsky
  * Ekaterina Nesterova as Jamila
  * Igor Gordin as Major general
  * Polina Pushkaruk as Zhilin's wife
  * Vitaliya Korniyenko as Zhilin's daughter
  * Anna Potebnya as Shaberov's daughter
  * Aleksey Komashko as the groom of Shaberov's daughter
  
  ## Production
  
  ### Filming
  
  Principal photography took place in the Republic of Crimea, and was completed in November of that year, with some of the filming done by Syrian film producers who shot outdoor scenes in Palmyra itself for the producers.
  
  