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The handmaid's tale, Cinecom Entertaiment Group presents with Master Partners ; produced by Daniel Wilson ; screenplay by Harold Pinter ; directed by Volker Schlöndorff

Label
The handmaid's tale, Cinecom Entertaiment Group presents with Master Partners ; produced by Daniel Wilson ; screenplay by Harold Pinter ; directed by Volker Schlöndorff
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Rating: R
Main title
The handmaid's tale
Oclc number
981251415
Responsibility statement
Cinecom Entertaiment Group presents with Master Partners ; produced by Daniel Wilson ; screenplay by Harold Pinter ; directed by Volker Schlöndorff
Runtime
109
Summary
In the not-so-distant future, strong-willed and beautiful Kate possesses a precious commodity that most women have supposedly lost and most men want to control: fertility. Forced into a brain-washing boot camp that turns fertile women into surrogate mothers for elite men of the theocratic military and their infertile wives, Kate thinks she's made out well when she's assigned to an eminent party leader. But when she learns that he--like so many of the soldiers who were on the battlefront--is sterile, she's faced with an impossible choice: produce him an heir or die
Technique
live action
Classification
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