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The Forbidden Woman

Original title: Die verbotene Frau
  • TV Movie
  • 2013
  • 1h 29m
IMDb RATING
4.8/10
83
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The Forbidden Woman (2013)
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Verena, a photojournalist, knows Khalid. The two fall in love with her and he asks her to follow him to Dubai and marry him. Once in town, Verena discovers that Khalid is the son of a sheikh... Read allVerena, a photojournalist, knows Khalid. The two fall in love with her and he asks her to follow him to Dubai and marry him. Once in town, Verena discovers that Khalid is the son of a sheikh and that he will soon be crowned successor.Verena, a photojournalist, knows Khalid. The two fall in love with her and he asks her to follow him to Dubai and marry him. Once in town, Verena discovers that Khalid is the son of a sheikh and that he will soon be crowned successor.

  • Director
    • Hansjörg Thurn
  • Writers
    • Caroline Hecht
    • Maureen Herzfeld
    • Gabriele Kister
  • Stars
    • Alexandra Neldel
    • Mido Hamada
    • Andreas Lust
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.8/10
    83
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Hansjörg Thurn
    • Writers
      • Caroline Hecht
      • Maureen Herzfeld
      • Gabriele Kister
    • Stars
      • Alexandra Neldel
      • Mido Hamada
      • Andreas Lust
    • 1User review
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    Alexandra Neldel
    • Verena
    Mido Hamada
    Mido Hamada
    • Khalid
    Andreas Lust
    Andreas Lust
    • Paul
    Deniz Raunig
    • Hassan
    • (as Deniz Cooper)
    Maya Henselek
    Maya Henselek
    • Faizah
    Sandra Cervik
    Sandra Cervik
    • Muaba
    Imane El Mechrafi
    • Young woman
    Abdellatif Chaouqi
    • Said
    Amira El Sayed
    Amira El Sayed
    • Daima
    • Director
      • Hansjörg Thurn
    • Writers
      • Caroline Hecht
      • Maureen Herzfeld
      • Gabriele Kister
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    Ridiculously unrealistic and presumptuously pathetic

    This movie seems to tell apparently a real story – despite the fact that it has not even been shot at the original scene, though. Probably because its makers could not land with their idiotic ideas or super-shallow script at Dubai – the cultural authorities there denied all access, and they were right. Because the whole thing is so stupid that one would switch off actually – if there weren't at least these nice graphics of landscapes, nature and alike (of Morocco, not of Dubai though – because in the real Dubai-heat nobody would walk or drive or whatever around like the morons depicted in this movie). And anybody, who has ever spent some time at Dubai, will agree: this film has got nothing to do with Dubai, neither with the culture nor with the scenery there – it is simply ridiculous and pathetically sentimental. Of course, people who love tearjerker-romances will truly enjoy this movie. But anyone who's looking for the real Arabian culture will turn it off, because there's nothing of it in this screener. Instead there are so many dumb western clichés that Dubai seems probably a part of Germany (the country of the producers of this senseless waste of time) – not in real life, but rather as if the picture of this city displayed in the movie stems from one of these as brainless as cheap novelettes of Rosamunde Pilcher. This also means, that the "love mania" displayed in this movie is not even real or realistically portrayed. Therefore: thanks for not watching – for your own good.

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    • Release date
      • October 6, 2013 (Austria)
    • Countries of origin
      • Austria
      • Germany
    • Language
      • German
    • Also known as
      • La mujer prohibida
    • Filming locations
      • Morocco
    • Production companies
      • Aichholzer Filmproduktion
      • Puls 4
      • Sat.1
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      1 hour 29 minutes
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