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Title Desert flower / National Geographic Entertainment and The Match Factory present ; produced by Peter Herrmann ; written and directed by Sherry Hormann.

Publication Info. New York : Virgil Films, [2011]
©2011

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD DESERT    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  DVD DES    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - DVDs  DVD DESERT    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen.
Cast Liya Kebede, Sally Hawkins, Craig Parkinson, Meera Syal, Soraya Omar-Scego, Anthony Mackie, Timothy Spall.
Credits Director of photography, Ken Kelsch ; edited by Clara Fabry ; music by Martin Todsharow.
Note Based on the autobiographic novel by Waris Dirie.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2009.
Audience MPAA rating: R.
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.
Note Bonus features: extended interviews; theatrical trailer.
GMD: videorecording.
Subject Dirie, Waris -- Drama.
Women social reformers -- Somalia -- Drama.
Women -- Political activity -- Somalia -- Drama.
Women's rights -- Somalia -- Drama.
Models (Persons) -- Somalia -- Drama.
Added Author Kebede, Liya, 1978-
Hawkins, Sally, 1976-
Parkinson, Craig.
Herrmann, Peter, 1954-
Hormann, Sherry.
Dirie, Waris. Desert flower.
Virgil Films
National Geographic Entertainment (Firm)
Match Factory (Firm)
Standard No. 829567075722
Music No. 670757 Virgil Films
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