Dunya & Desie (2008)
Dunya & Desie is a 2008 Dutch-language drama movie directed by Dana Nechushtan, with a running time of 1h 41m. It stars Maryam Hassouni, Eva van de Wijdeven and Mahjoub Benmoussa.
Dunya and Desie are two 18 year old best friends from Amsterdam North. Dunya is Moroccan and Desie is Dutch. On Dunya's Birthday she is told that her marriage has been arranged with a distant cousin in Morocco. Dunya and her family will travel to Morocco to meet him. After Desie discovers that she is pregnant she joins Dunya in Morocco in a search for Desies father.
Cast
- Maryam Hassouni as Dunya El-Beneni
- Eva van de Wijdeven as Desie Koppenol
- Mahjoub Benmoussa as Nabil El-Beneni
- Rachida Iaallala as Kenza El-Beneni
- Christine van Stralen as Monique Koppenol
- Theo Maassen as Jeff Schouten
- Iliass Ojja as Soufian El-Beneni
- Ilias Addab as Shamir
- Tygo Gernandt as Pim
- Micha Hulshof as Maik
- Nezha Karim as Dunya's Aunt
- Marcel Musters as Hans Schakel