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Desert Flower

09/24/2009

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2hrs 0min

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Drama

The extraordinary true story of the woman who crossed the desert and changed the world.

STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • Liya Kebede
  • Sally Hawkins
  • Craig Parkinson
  • Meera Syal
  • Anthony Mackie

    Director

  • Sherry Hormann

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Backup Media
  • Desert Flower
  • Majestic Filmproduktion
  • MTM West Television & Film
  • Torus

    Production Countries

  • Austria
  • Germany
  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • French
  • Somali

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

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