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Queen of the Desert

One woman can change the course of history

5.8(314)20152h 8m4

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire in the Near and Middle East at the dawn of the twentieth century. Her knowledge of the tribal leaders is used by the British to establish the Kingdoms of Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

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Status
Released
Budget
$15M
Box office
$1.6M
Language
English
  • middle east
  • persia
  • unrequited love
  • travel writer
  • adventurer
  • british colonialism
  • diplomacy
  • 1910s
  • ottoman empire
  • land dispute
  • woman falls in love
  • travel adventure

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Produced in

Morocco, United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical1 Mar 2016
  • AustriaAT

    • Theatrical11 Sept 2015
  • DenmarkDK

    • Physical1510 Mar 2016
  • GermanyDE

    • PremiereBerlin International Film Festival6 Feb 2015
    • Theatrical03 Sept 2015
  • GreeceGR

    • TheatricalΚ18 Aug 2016
    • PhysicalDVD29 Nov 2016
  • JapanJP

    • Digital / OTTG21 Jan 2017
  • PolandPL

    • Digital / OTT168 Apr 2016
  • PortugalPT

    • TheatricalM/129 Jun 2016
  • South KoreaKR

    • Theatrical127 Apr 2016
  • UkraineUA

    • Theatrical29 Sept 2016

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Queen of the Desert was released on 3 September 2015.

Audience reviews

2
  • R

    Reno

    9/1/2016

    5/10

    > The woman who knew every inch of the middle-east! It is a kind of female version of 'Lawrence of Arabia', the lead actress herself told that. A biographical drama of a British woman who had played an important role in many middle-eastern affairs during the early 1900s. After the tragic death of the man she was madly in love, the young Gertrude Bell decides to travel across the middle-east to write about it and t…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    7/7/2024

    6/10

    Despite assembling a decent enough cast, this biopic of the formidable desert adventurer Gertrude Bell is really little better than a fine example of the arts of cinematography in sandy and windy climes. She (Nicole Kidman) is in Arabia as the Ottoman Empire continues to decline and the European powers pick over it's bones. Her arrival in British Egypt introduces her to her first love "Cadogan" (James Franco) - the t…

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