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Based on the world best-selling book Desert Flower by Waris Dirie the autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 5, sold in marriage at 13, who became an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against circumcision.

Overview

Genre Drama
Category Feature Film
Financing Minoritäre Koproduktion
Production DOR FILM Produktionsgesellschaft m.b.H., MR-Film Kurt Mrkwicka Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Format 35 mm, 120 Min
Release 09.10.2009
Distribution FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions 189.568
Co-production Desert Flower Film (DE), Majestic Film (DE), Mr. Brown Entertainment (DE), BSI International Invest (DE), MTM West Film (DE), BAC Films (FR)
International funding Filmförderungsanstalt (DE), Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Deutscher Filmförderfonds, Eurimages
Festivals & Awards (Selection) 2009: TCM Audience Award (San Sebastian)
2009: Austrian Ticket
2010: Bayrischer Filmpreis – Produzentenpreis
2010: Preis Innovative Produktionsleistung (VAM)

Details:

AKA Desert Flower
Orginal title Desert Flower
Script Sherry Hormann
Director Bo Chen, Sherry Hormann
DOP Ken Kelsch
Editor Clara Fabry
Sound engineer Heinz Ebner
Producer Danny Krausz, Kurt Stocker
Funding institutions Austria Filmfonds Wien, Filminstitut
Costume design Gabriele Binder
Set design Jamie Leonard
Music Martin Todsharow
Cast Liya Kebede (Waris Dirie), Sally Hawkins (Marylin), Craig Parkinson (Neil), Meera Syal (Pushpa Patel)
Production manager Georg Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Voigtlaender
Television investment ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), ARD, ZDF
Film location Djibouti, New York, London, Germany
Shooting time March - July 2008
Weltvertrieb The Match Factory
Ungefährer Kinostart 09.10.2009