Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Based on Margaret Atwood&8217;s award-winning best-selling novel The Handmaid&8217;s Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States Facing environmental disasters & a plunging birthrate Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalism in its militarized &8220;return to traditional values” As one of the few remaining fertile women Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is a Handmaid in the Commander&8217;s household belonging to the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate the world In this terrifying society Offred must navigate between Commanders their cruel Wives domestic Marthas & her fellow Handmaids &8211; where anyone could be a spy for Gilead &8211; with one goal to survive & find the daughter who was taken from her Also featuring Yvonne Strahovski & Samira Wiley Actors Elisabeth Moss Joseph Fiennes Yvonne Strahovski Alexis Bledel Madeline Brewer Writers Bruce Miller Format PALLanguage English Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Aspect Ratio 169
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The Emmy & Golden Globe award-winning drama series returns with a second season shaped by Offred&8217;s pregnancy & her ongoing fight to free her future child from the dystopian horrors of Gilead &8220; Gilead is within you” is a favourite saying of Aunt Lydia In Season Two Offred & all our characters will fight against &8211; or succumb to &8211; this dark truth Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 5 ...

One of the New Windmills series for schools this is the story of Offred one of the few women in the Republic of Gilead left with functioning ovaries whose only function it is to breed If she deviates she will be hanged as a dissenter But Offred is determined to find a way out ...

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NOW A SMASH-HIT CHANNEL 4 TV SERIESWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM MARGARET ATWOODThe Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function to breed If she deviates she will like dissenters be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire
- neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs Brilliantly conceived & executed this powerful vision of the future gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's irony wit & astute perception Don't expect to be gripped by a more potent or involving drama this year' Telegraph 'I can't think of another television event that has hit quite such a nerve & gone on resounding & resonating worrying & creeping into your soul & into your dreams quite like The Handmaid's Tale has It's as relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it in Berlin in 1985 & while all this continues to be real we need The Handmaid's Tale
- to keep reminding & resonating & ringing Dong dong dong' Guardian

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NOW A SMASH-HIT CHANNEL 4 TV SERIESThe Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function to breed If she deviates she will like dissenters be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire
- neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs Brilliantly conceived & executed this powerful evocation of twenty-first century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony wit & astute perception
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NOW A SMASH-HIT CHANNEL 4 TV SERIESOffred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead She has only one function to breed If she deviates she will like dissenters be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire
- neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs Brilliantly conceived & executed this powerful evocation of twenty-first century America explores a world in which oppression of women & repression of the truth have become justified ' Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph
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NOW A SMASH-HIT CHANNEL 4 TV SERIES' It isn't running away they're afraid of We wouldn't get far It's those other escapes the ones you can open in yourself given a cutting edge' Offred is a Handmaid She has only one function to breed If she refuses to play her part she will like all dissenters be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness She may walk daily to the market & utter demure words to other Handmaid's but her role is fixed her freedom a forgotten concept Offred remembers her old life
- love family a job access to the news It has all been taken away But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire

Includes:: exclusive content In The ' Backstory' you can read Margaret Atwood's account of how she came to write this landmark dystopian novel' Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph


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