Movie
1990
The Handmaid's Tale is a 1990 dystopian drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, adapted by Harold Pinter from Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel. It stars Natasha Richardson (Offred), Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall, Aidan Quinn (Nick), and Elizabeth McGovern (Moira). The original music score was composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto. It is the first filmed adaptation of the novel, succeeded by the Hulu television series which…
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One of the most influential pieces of 1980s literature was *The Handmaid’s Tale*, novel by Canadian writer Margaret Attwood. Inspired by certain cultural and political trends in neighbouring USA – namely the rise of Religious Right and increasing influence of Christian fundamentalists on Reagan’s administration – it speculated that they could lead to theocratic regime as oppressive to women as Iran became after Isla…More
