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Desert Flower

2009
United Kingdom / Germany / Austria / France
feature film - Drama
129 min. (3539 m.)
Location shooting / Berlin story line

Cast

Actor/-ess: Liya Kebede (Waris Dirie); Sally Hawkins (Marylin); Craig Parkinson (Neil); Meera Syal (Pushpa Patel); Soraya Omar-Scego (Waris, 12-years); Anthony Mackie (Harold); Timothy Spall (Donaldson); Juliet Stevenson (Lucinda); Idriss Abdillahi Houfaneh (Old Man); Awa Saïd Darar (Amina); Roun Daher Aïnan (Waris' Mother); Osman Aden Dalieh (Waris' Father); Chris Wilson (Botschafts Aufseher); Eliezer Meyer (european); Teresa Churcher (sister Anne); Nick Raio (truck driver); Matt Kaufman (Burger Bar Manager); Prashant Jaiswal (Kami); Robert Robalino (Cafe owner)

Direction

Director: Sherry Horman

Assistant director: Jochen Gosch

Writing

Screenplay: Waris Dirie; Sherry Hormann

Based on: Waris Dirie (autobiographie)

Camera & Light

Director of photography: Ken Kelsch

Still photographer: Walter Wehner

Lighting design: William Louthe

Decor

Set design: Matthias Klemme

Make-up artist: Stefanie Birrenbach; Michele Thevenet; Jenny Retzlaff

Costume design: Gabriele Binder

Production design: Jamie Leonard

Art Director: Petra Maria Wirth; Sherry Hormann

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: Clara Fabry

Assistant editor: Caroline Biesenbach

Foley artist: Wilmont Schulze

Audio mixing: Falk Möller

Music

Music: Martin Todsharow

Production

Producer: Peter Herrmann

Co-Producer: Roch Lener; Barbara Seiller; Til Schweiger; Hubert von Spreti; Hans Wolfgang Jurgan; Waris Dirie; Bettina Reitz; Benjamin Herrmann

Line producer: Gerhard Hegele

Unit production manager: Beth Sanders; Erica Bensly

Companies

Production company: Desert Flower Filmproductions GmbH; Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR)

in Co-Production: Majestic Filmproduktion GmbH; MTM West Television & Film GmbH; ARD Degeto Film; DOR Film Produktionsgesellschaft mbH; Mr. Brown Entertainment Filmproduktion; BAC Films S.A.; BSI International Invest

in Co-Operation: Backup Films