Queen of the Desert
One woman can change the course of history
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- Adventure
- Drama
- History
Overview
A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire in the Near and Middle East at the dawn of the twentieth century. Her knowledge of the tribal leaders is used by the British to establish the Kingdoms of Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Keywords
- adventurer
- middle east
- 1910s
- persia
- ottoman empire
- british colonialism
- unrequited love
- woman falls in love
- travel writer
- diplomacy
- land dispute
- bedouins
- biographical drama
- travel adventure
- daughter of wealthy man
- suicide of lover
- female explorer
- british woman abroad
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 3, 2015
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, English, French, Turkish
- Countries
- Morocco, United States of America
- Cast
- Ismael Kanater,Assaad Bouab,Qualid Mezouar,Hamid Najah,Mustafa Haidari,Abdellah Bensaidi,Mehdi El Ouazzani,Mohamed Boussalem,Nicole Kidman,Nick Waringand 39 more
- Director
- Werner Herzog
- Writer
- Werner Herzog
- Producer
- Shelley Madison,Ben Sachs,Jonathan Debin,James Lejsek,D. Todd Shepherd,Michael Benaroya,Peter Graham,Nick N. Raslan,Stephen Hays,Cassian Elwes,Cathy Gesualdo
- Cinematography
- Peter Zeitlinger
- Music
- Klaus Badelt
- Budget
- $15,000,000
- Revenue
- $1,592,853
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt1837636