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The Favorite [Original Title]

Intimate Power [Other Title]

Country of Origin:	US/SZ
Year of origin:	1989
Genre:	Trailer
Locations of shooting:	Istanbul, Türkei

Credits
Actor:	F. Murray Abraham
	Maud Adams
	Amber O'Shea
	James Michael Gregary
	Ron Dortch
Production company:	Ascona Film Inc.
Production manager:	Guy Collins
	Klaus Hellwig
Screenplay:	Larry Yust
Director:	Jack Smight
Music:	William Goldstein
Keywords:	Leidenschaft, Liebe, Orient, Revolution, Türkei

Content:

At first you see a Great Mosque in Istanbul in the twilight. Bathing Women. A boy's right hand is chopped off. A white couple dressed in Arab cloths is shocked, she runs for help. A prince is reverently welcomed by servants. A baby is strangled. A dance ball is celebrated in Europe, all dressed in Baroque style, with voluminous wigs. A European woman is kidnapped in the Ottoman world. She is put into a harem, but she resisted all the time. She has the choice of sleeping with her master, of being killed or killing herself. Her master tells her that he could force her, but he is such a gentleman. He wants, namely, that she is doing it voluntarily. And then they fall in love. But it is unfolding a revolution, and no love is safe. There are riots. Love ... there is no better ruler...

Version 1

Language: n/a

Colour: Colour

Sound: 2-Doppelzacken (Lichtton)

Format: 35 mm

Aspect: 1:1,85

Original Length: n/a

Duration: 2 min

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Length	59 m	request copy
Copy Type	Positive
Base	Acetate

Version 2