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Key Details

Release StatusReleased
Release Date2017-08-23
Languagede
Runtime1h 30m
Production

ARTE, Brockhaus/Wolff Films, ZDF

7.0(1)
•2017•1h 30m

The Poetess

Documentary

Overview

The story of Hissa Hilal, a Saudi woman who used her reality-television fame to speak against religious extremism.

Cinematography
Tobias Tempel

Principal Cast

5 credited
HH
Hissa HilalHerself - Poetess
MA
Mastoura Al-AhmadiHerself
ZB
Ziad BatalHimself
SB
Stefanie BrockhausHimself - Interviewer (voice)
MF
Maged FakhrHimself

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