Sep 24, 2009
120 min
Full-HD

Desert Flower (2009)

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.

Category

Drama

Country

Austria Germany France

Companies

Backup Media Desert Flower Majestic Filmproduktion MTM West Television & Film Dor Film Bac Films

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

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