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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is a 2011 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Lasse Hallström and starring Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas and Amr Waked.
Apr 20, 2012 · With Amr Waked, Emily Blunt, Catherine Steadman, Tom Mison. A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.
When a rich Yemeni sheikh and angling enthusiast, Muhammad ibn Zaidi bani Tihama, offers to fund a scheme to populate the desert wadis of his country with Scottish salmon, Jones initially dismisses it as impossible and preposterous.
Mar 9, 2012 · Dr. Alfred Jones (Ewan McGregor) is a fisheries scientist who one day receives an unusual request: A businesswoman named Harriet Chetwode-Talbot (Emily Blunt) wants his help in fulfilling a ...
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Apr 20, 2012 · Romantic fable Salmon Fishing In The Yemen follows government scientist Dr. Alfred Jones as a fly fishing-obsessed Sheikh tasks him with the seemingly impossible - introducing salmon to...
In a river in the deserts of western Yemen, that's where. "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" is based on Paul Torday's novel, a political satire that was a best-seller in the UK, and allows an opening into the worlds of British and Yemeni politics, the devotion of salmon fishermen, and the possibilities of romance among humans and salmon, who in ...
Mar 8, 2012 · An unexpected uproar ensues when British fishermen learn that their salmon stock will be depleted. It is decided that the only solution is to use farmed salmon, which have no river experience.
