Desert Flower
Synopsis
It's a fairy tale, and yet it's a true story: Waris Dirie, a little girl raised in the Somalian desert, with rocks as horizon and goat-herding her only future, will become, thanks to the hands of fate, one of the world's most famous top models.
From a family of Somalian nomads, Waris had a tough but happy childhood surrounded by her relatives. But when her father decided to marry her off when she was 13, Waris ran away. Crossing the desert and risking life and limb, she reached Mogadiscio and found her grandmother, who enabled her to leave the country by finding her a maid's job at the Somalian Embassy in London. Waris worked there for 6 years, virtually a slave, a total recluse cut off from the rest of the world. When civil war broke out in Somalia, the embassy closed. Waris found herself left to her own devices in the streets of London, not knowing a word of English. She then met Marilyn and a friendship developed between them. This young, crazy and original woman took her in and he...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (6)
Production and distribution (4)
- Co-production : BAC Films
- Foreign production companies : Desert Flower Filmproductions, Dor Film Produktion, MTM - Medien & Television München, ARD/Degeto Film GMBH, Bayerischer Rundfunk - TV
- Film exports/foreign sales : The Match Factory
- French distribution : BAC Films
Full credits (7)
- Screenwriter : Sherry Hormann
- Director of Photography : Ken Kelsch
- Music Composer : Martin Todsharow
- Costume designer : Gabriele Binder
- Foreign producers : Danny Krausz, Hans Wolfgang Jurgan
- Author of original work : Waris Dirie
- Press Attaché (film) : Laura Gouadain
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Biopic
- Production language : English
- Coproducer countries : Germany, Austria, France
- Original French-language productions : No
