Desert Flower
The extraordinary true story of the woman who crossed the desert and changed the world.
Film20092hReleased
Drama
Not rated
Where to watch
Details
- Director
- Sherry Hormann
- Language
- English
- Released
- 2009-09-24
- Runtime
- 2h
Community score
7.6495 votes on TMDB
Confidence
Rating weighted by how many people voted
7.2
The 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
- Liya KebedeWaris Dirie
- Sally HawkinsMarylin
- Craig ParkinsonNeil
- Meera SyalPushpa Patel
- Anthony MackieHarold Jackson
- Juliet StevensonLucinda
- Timothy SpallTerry Donaldson
- Lucrezia PhantaziaGirl in Boardinghouse
- Soraya Omar-ScegoYoung Waris
- Anna HilgedieckGirl in Shower
