# Queen of the Desert (2015)

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**Runtime**: 128 min
**Genres**: Drama, Adventure, History
**Directed by**: Werner Herzog
**Written by**: Werner Herzog
**Starring**: Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Robert Pattinson, Damian Lewis, Jay Abdo, Jenny Agutter

> *One woman can change the course of history*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Lawrence of Arabia meets The Eagle Huntress as a woman navigates the shifting sands of empire with a theodolite in one hand and a rifle in the other. Gertrude Bell’s maps redrew the map, and her letters read like dispatches from another planet. A lone woman carries an empire across the desert on foot.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, outsider, slow-burn

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