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Film · 2009
Desert Flower
2h 7mDirected by Sherry Hormann
- Drama
The extraordinary true story of the woman who crossed the desert and changed the world.
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.
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Cast
Liya KebedeWaris Dirie
Sally HawkinsMarylin
Craig ParkinsonNeil
Meera SyalPushpa Patel
Anthony MackieHarold Jackson
Juliet StevensonLucinda
Timothy SpallTerry Donaldson
Lucrezia PhantaziaGirl in Boardinghouse
Soraya Omar-ScegoYoung Waris
Anna HilgedieckGirl in Shower
Matthew Alexander KaufmanFastfood Manager
Prashant PrabhakarKami
Details
- Director
- Sherry Hormann
- Novel
- Waris Dirie
- Cinematography
- Ken Kelsch
- Release
- September 24, 2009
- Runtime
- 2h 7m
- Language
- English, Somali, French
- Studio
- Backup Media, Desert Flower, Majestic Film
- TMDB score
- 7.6 / 10 from 507 votes
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