Queen of the Desert (2015)
Rating: 5.9/10
Duration: 128 min
Genres: Drama, Adventure, History,
Director(s): Werner Herzog,
Description:
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.
Cast
- Nicole Kidman as Gertrude Bell
- Jenny Agutter as Florence Bell
- Michael Jenn as R. Campbell Thompson
- James Franco as Henry Cadogan
- Robert Pattinson as T.E. Lawrence
- David Calder as Hugh Bell
- Christopher Fulford as Winston Churchill
- Beth Goddard as Aunt Lascelles
- Damian Lewis as Richard Wylie
- Mark Lewis Jones as Frank Lascelles
- Sophie Linfield as Judith Doughty-Wylie
- William Ellis as Earl of Chester
- Jay Abdo as Fattuh, Bell's guide
- Nick Waring as Sir Mark Sykes
- Holly Earl as Florence Lascelles