Limit search to available items
Streaming video

Title The Handmaid's Tale: Offred - Ep 1 / / Director: Morano, Reed
Published Australia : SBS, 2017
Online access available from:
Informit EduTV    View Resource Record  

Copies

Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 min. 1 sec.) ; 314383701 bytes
Summary Based on Margaret Atwood's novel, this dramatic series tells the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society that faces environmental disasters and a plummeting birth rate. In a desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world, the few remaining fertile women are forced into sexual servitude. In the first episode, Offred, one the few fertile women left in Gilead, struggles to survive as a reproductive surrogate for a powerful commander and his resentful wife
Notes Closed captioning in English
Event Broadcast 2017-08-16 at 22:25:00
Notes Classification: MA
Subject Dystopian plays.
Servitudes.
Surrogate motherhood -- Moral and ethical aspects.
United States.
Form Streaming video
Author Blake, Jordana, cast
Bledel, Alexis, 1981- cast
Brewer, Madeline, 1992- cast
Brugel, Amanda, 1978- cast
Dowd, Ann, cast
Fagbenle, O-T, 1980- cast
Fiennes, Joseph, 1970- cast
Grant, Jenessa, cast
Kiri, Nina, cast
Kothari, Shruti, cast
Minghella, Max, 1985- cast
Morano, Reed, 1977- director
Moss, Elisabeth, cast
Strahovski, Yvonne, 1982- cast
Watson, Bahia, cast
Wiley, Samira, cast