Dunya & Desie

Apr 17, 2008

1h 41m

★ 6.9

Overview

Dunya and Desie are two 18 year old best friends from Amsterdam North. Dunya is Moroccan and Desie is Dutch. On Dunya's Birthday she is told that her marriage has been arranged with a distant cousin in Morocco. Dunya and her family will travel to Morocco to meet him. After Desie discovers that she is pregnant she joins Dunya in Morocco in a search for Desies father.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Agora Films

Motion Investment Group

Lemming Film

A Private View

NPS

Dunya & Desie Trailers

Cast

Dunya El-Beneni

Maryam Hassouni

Desie Koppenol

Eva van de Wijdeven

Nabil El-Beneni

Mahjoub Benmoussa

Kenza El-Beneni

Rachida Iaallala

Monique Koppenol

Christine van Stralen

Jeff Schouten

Theo Maassen

Soufian El-Beneni

Iliass Ojja

Shamir

Ilias Addab

Pim

Tygo Gernandt

Maik

Micha Hulshof

Dunya's Aunt

Nezha Karim

Hans Schakel

Marcel Musters

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