Desert Flower

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.
Data
- aka
- Desert Flower
- Genre
- Drama
- Category
- Feature Film
- Financing
- Minority coproduction
- Format
- 35 mm, 120 Min
- Approximate cinema release
- 09.10.2009
- 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)- Funding program
- ÖFI
- Film location
- Djibouti, New York, London, Germany
- Shooting time
- March - July 2008
- Funding institutions Austria
- Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien
Credits
- Production
- DOR FILM Produktionsgesellschaft m.b.H.
- Producer
- Danny Krausz, Kurt Stocker
- Director
- Sherry Hormann
- Script
- Sherry Hormann
- DOP
- Ken Kelsch
- Editor
- Clara Fabry
- Sound engineer
- Heinz Ebner
- 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
- International distribution
- The Match Factory
- German Title
- Wüstenblume
- Television investment
- ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), ARD, ZDF
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