The Handmaid's tale, season 1
Type
Label
The Handmaid's tale, season 1
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
CHV rating: 14A
Main title
The Handmaid's tale
Oclc number
1022190283
Runtime
525
Sub title
season 1
Summary
A totalitarian regime has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. Faced with environmental disasters and a plummeting birth rate, and in a desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world, the few remaining fertile women are forced into sexual servitude. In this dystopian country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
resource.variantTitle
Handmaid's tale, season one
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Incoming Resources
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Outgoing Resources
- Contributor4
- Subject7
- Is Derivative Of1
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