Desert Flower

Sep 24, 2009

2h 0m

★ 7.5

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

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Backup Media

Desert Flower

Majestic Filmproduktion

MTM West Television & Film

Torus

Desert Flower Trailers

Cast

Waris Dirie

Liya Kebede

Marylin

Sally Hawkins

Neil

Craig Parkinson

Pushpa Patel

Meera Syal

Harold Jackson

Anthony Mackie

Lucinda

Juliet Stevenson

Terry Donaldson

Timothy Spall

Girl in Boardinghouse

Lucrezia Phantazia

Young Waris

Soraya Omar-Scego

Girl in Shower

Anna Hilgedieck

Fastfood Manager

Matthew Alexander Kaufman

Kami

Prashant Prabhakar

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