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DESERT FLOWER

By Sherry HORMANN

Drama - Completed 2009

- Year of production
- 2009
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- GERMANY, UNITED KINGDOM, AUSTRIA, FRANCE
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FRENCH
- Duration
- 128 mn
- Director(s)
- Sherry HORMANN
- Cast
- Soraya OMAR-SCEGO
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-5B1F-0000-D-0000-0000-Z
- EIDR
- 10.5240/BB6C-3E44-6705-F08F-115C-S
- Synopsis
- Waris Dirie, born 1965 in Somalia, flees at thirteen when sold to be a mans fourth wife. She works as a maid at the Somalian embassy in London, then in a McDonald's where she's discovered and becomes an international top model. Then, in 1997 she speaks up against female genital mutilation.