Desert Flower (2009)
The extraordinary true story of the woman who crossed the desert and changed the world.
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.
- Date of release
- 2009-09-24
- TMDB
- 7.6 / 10 (505)
- Runtime
- 2h 7m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Sherry Hormann
Casting
- 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
- Matthew Alexander Kaufman — Fastfood Manager
- Prashant Prabhakar — Kami
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