72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
Languages
Official
Sponsors
Media
Partner

The Handmaid's Tale

Volker Schlöndorff
     108 m.
Synopsis
In the totalitarian America of the future, young women are selected for their fertility and trained to bear the children so desired by the sterile women of the upper social strata. Kate, one of these ?handmaids?, whose husband was executed and her daughter abducted, is sent to the house of commander Fred to provide him with offspring.
Director
Volker Schlöndorff
Screenplay
Harold Pinter
Photography
Igor Luther
Edition
David Ray
Music
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Cast
Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall, Aidan Quinn
Running Time
108 m.
Official Sponsor:
Media Partner:
Official Collaborators:
Associated Institutions: