The Favorite
4.4 /10 1 Votes
43% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Adventure Duration Country United StatesSwitzerland | 4.5/10 IMDb Director Jack Smight Initial DVD release July 15, 2003 Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Prince Michael of Greece , Larry Yust Release date 9 August 1989 (France) Genres Drama, Romance Film, Indie film, Adventure Film, Historical period drama, Docudrama Cast F. Murray Abraham (Abdul Hamid), Maud Adams (Sineperver), Amber O'Shea (Aimée Dubucq de Rivéry), James Michael Gregary (Selim), Ron Dortch (Tulip), Laurent Le Doyen (Sebastiani)Similar movies Iron Man , L'Italiana in Algeri , Girls in the Night Traffic , The Abduction from the Seraglio , Underworld: Rise of the Lycans , You Don't Mess With the Zohan Tagline He stole her innocence. She stole his heart....and his empire. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
For the opera by Donizetti, see La favorite. For the stadium in Palermo, Italy, see La Favorita. For the Canadian early music ensemble, see La Favoritte. For the Brazilian soap opera, see A Favorita.
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The Favorite (also titled Intimate Power) is a 1989 Swiss-American drama film based on the life story of Aimée du Buc de Rivéry (1776-1817) that takes place at the dawn of the 19th century. It is the final film of director Jack Smight.
Premise
A young French woman named Aimee is kidnapped and forced into a sultan's harem in Turkey. Fiercely independent, she resists, but must make choices in order to survive. She begins to influence the sultan toward more fair manners of solving his conflicts, but finds herself at odds with another of his wives, who wants her son Mustafa to become the new sultan. As the years pass, she must deal with the new sultan's advances while protecting her adopted son Mahmud, and helping the Ottoman Empire against the Russians who have better weapons than they do.
The source for the story is a novel by Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark titled Sultana - La Nuit du Serail.
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Production
References
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