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Films pour personnes handicapées auditives.
1 online resource (1 video file (109 min.)) : sound, color
Set in the near future, the handmaids of the title are women who can still bear children after the ravages of war caused wide-spread sterility. One of the handmaids, Kate, is caught trying to escape the Republic of Gilead and sent to the prison-like training center. She is sent from there to the home of the commander to bear his child, but revolutionary forces have other plans for her!
screenplay by Harold Pinter ; produced by Daniel Wilson ; directed by Volker Schlondorff.
Originally released as motion picture in 1990.
Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern, Victoria Tennant, Robert Duvall.
Director of photography, Igor Luther ; editor, David Ray ; music, Ryuichi Sakamoto.