Desert Flower (2009)

Summary: Waris Dirie, born 1965 in Somalia, flees at thirteen when sold to be a mans fourth wife. She works as a maid at the Somalian embassy in London, then in a McDonald's where she's discovered and becomes an international top model. Th...

Release Date: September 24, 2009

Genres: Biography, Drama

Director: Sherry Hormann

Writers: Waris Dirie

, Sherry Hormann

, Cathleen Miller

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: Desert Flower Filmproductions, Majestic Filmproduktion, MTM West Television & Film, Dor Film Produktionsgesellschaft, Desert Flower, MTM West Television & Film, ARD Degeto Film, Bac Films, Backup Media, BSI International Invest, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), Mr. Brown Entertainment, Torus GmbH

Distributor: Virgil Films & Entertainment, Virgil Films & Entertainment, National Geographic Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France

Language: English

Domestic: $ 44,348

International: $ 14,638,595

John Rabe (2009)

Summary: A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.

Release Date: April 02, 2009

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Florian Gallenberger

Writers: Florian Gallenberger

, John Rabe

, Erwin Wickert

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

Production: Odeon Fiction, EOS Entertainment, Majestic Filmproduktion, Canal+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), France 2 Cinéma, Huayi Brothers & Taihe Film Investment, Lunaris Film, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Pampa Production, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Rai Cinema, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)

Distributor: Strand Releasing

Countries: France, China, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 67,519

International: $ 1,417,146

North Face (2008)

Summary: A secretary at a Berlin newspaper in 1936 gets to write about two Alpinists, as she knows them well. She later gets to report on and photograph her friends' and other Alpinists' climbs of the dangerous Swiss Eiger north face.

Release Date: October 23, 2008

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Director: Philipp Stölzl