The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale
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The Handmaid's Tale

DirectorVolker Schlöndorff

A haunting tale of sexuality in a country gone wrong.

6.1 / 10
1990
108 min
DramaScience Fiction

In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.

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