Desert Flower
The extraordinary true story of the woman who crossed the desert and changed the world.
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- Drama
Overview
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.
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- woman director
- based on true story
- africa
- wilderness
- somalia
- united nations
- supermodel
- vagabond
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 24, 2009
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- French, English, Somali
- Countries
- Austria, Germany, United Kingdom
- Production
- Bac Films,Backup Media,Majestic Filmproduktion,Torus,Desert Flower,MTM West Television & Film,Dor Film
- Cast
- Liya Kebede,Sally Hawkins,Craig Parkinson,Meera Syal,Anthony Mackie,Juliet Stevenson,Timothy Spall,Lucrezia Phantazia,Soraya Omar-Scego,Anna Hilgedieckand 12 more
- Director
- Sherry Hormann
- Cinematography
- Ken Kelsch
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- $14,682,943
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt1054580