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Desert Flower (2009)
Directed by Sherry Hormann
“The extraordinary true story of the woman who crossed the desert and changed the world.”
Drama · 2h 07m
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.
Cast
Liya Kebede
Waris Dirie
Sally Hawkins
Marylin
Craig Parkinson
Neil
Meera Syal
Pushpa Patel
Anthony Mackie
Harold Jackson
Juliet Stevenson
Lucinda
Timothy Spall
Terry Donaldson
Lucrezia Phantazia
Girl in Boardinghouse
Soraya Omar-Scego
Young Waris
Anna Hilgedieck
Girl in Shower
Matthew Alexander Kaufman
Fastfood Manager
Prashant Prabhakar
Kami
Crew
- Director
- Sherry Hormann
- Novel
- Waris Dirie
- Director of Photography
- Ken Kelsch
Details
- Release date
- 2009-09-24
- Runtime
- 2h 07m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Somali, French
- Countries
- Austria, Germany, France, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Production
- Backup Media, Desert Flower, Majestic Film, MTM West Television & Film, Dor Film, Bac Films, Dolphin Film Production, Schenk Productions, The Match Factory, BSI
- Box office
- $14,682,943