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Desert Flower(2009)

7.6(490)
2h 0m
2009-09-24

The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.

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Keywords

based on novel or bookafricawildernesssupermodel
somalia
based on true story
vagabond
united nations
woman director

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