Review by JUDITH HAZLETT
This is an amazing movie. Waris Dirie helped produce the story of her own life as part of her campaign against female circumcision. Totally fascinating and very well done.
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| Title Statement | Desert flower: Fleur du désert / [DVD] = the Match Factory presents, a production by Desert Flower Filmproductions in coproduction with Dor Film, Majestic Filmproduktion, BSI International Invest, Bac Films, Mr. Brown Entertainment, MTM West Film & Television, Bayerischer Rundfunk and ARD/Degeto, in association with Backup Films ; produced by Peter Herrmann ; written and directed by Sherry Hormann. |
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| Alternative Title(s) | Fleur du désert |
| Additional Contributors | Hormann, Sherry |
| Kebede, Liya,1978- | |
| Hawkins, Sally | |
| Parkinson, Craig | |
| Dirie, Waris | |
| Publication | [Toronto]: Entertainment One, c2011. |
| Extent of Item | 1 videodisc (127 min.) |
| ISBN | (v.r.) |
| Standard Number (UPC, etc.) | 774212001246 |
| Other Number | 2230080 |
| General Notes | DVD. Disc label title. Originally released as a motion picture in 2009. Based on the autobiographic novel by Waris Dirie. Widescreen version. Bilingual packaging (English/French). |
| Performance Credits | Liya Kebede, Sally Hawkins, Craig Parkinson, Meera Syal, Soraya Omar-Scego. |
| Audience & Ratings | CHV rating: 14A. Classement de la Régie du cinéma du Québec: G. |
| Languages | English and French language tracks with English subtitles.SDH (Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing). |
| System Details | DVD, Dolby 5.1 surround. |
| Terms of Use | For home use only. |
| Summary | Inspired by the life of Waris Dirie, including how she escaped from an arranged marriage at the age of thirteen and embarked upon a two-hundred-mile journey across the desert of Somalia in an adventure that eventually led her into a modeling career. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Women social reformers--Fiction--Somalia |
| Women--Fiction--Political activity--Somalia | |
| Models (Persons)--Fiction--Somalia | |
| Women's rights--Fiction | |
| By Name | Dirie, Waris |
| By Location | Somalia--Fiction |
| London (England)--Fiction | |
| By Genre | Biographical films |
| Feature films | |
| Films for the hearing impaired | |
