The extraordinary true story of the woman who crossed the desert and changed the world.
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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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- contemporarynostalgic
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Cast
- Liya KebedeWaris Dirie
- Sally HawkinsMarylin
- Craig ParkinsonNeil
- Meera SyalPushpa Patel
- Anthony MackieHarold Jackson
- Juliet StevensonLucinda
- Timothy SpallTerry Donaldson
- Lucrezia PhantaziaGirl in Boardinghouse
- Soraya Omar-ScegoYoung Waris
- Anna HilgedieckGirl in Shower
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- Sherry HormannDirector
- Waris DirieNovel
- Ken KelschDirector of Photography
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