Directed by:
Jack SmightScreenplay:
Larry YustCinematography:
Howard WexlerComposer:
William GoldsteinCast:
F. Murray Abraham, Maud Adams, Amber O'Shea, Francesco Quinn, Andréa Parisy, Dale Dye, Roz Witt, Thomas Rosales Jr., Laurent Le Doyen, Michael Saad (more)VOD (2)
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At the dawn of the 19th century, a young French woman 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 Sultanate against the Russians who have modern weapons. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Maud Adams
Sweden
Best movies:
Playing for Time (1980) (TV movie)
Laura, Shadows of a Summer (1979)
The Boys in the Band (1970)
Francesco Quinn
Italy
Best movies:
Platoon (1986)
Into the West (2005) (series)
Zen (2011) (series)
Andréa Parisy
France
Best movies:
Don't Look Now: We're Being Shot At (1966)
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning (1965)
The Little Bather (1967)
Dale Dye
USA
Best movies:
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Platoon (1986)
JFK (1991)
Roz Witt
Best movies:
Corrina, Corrina (1994)
The Hillside Strangler (2004)
Caffeine (2006)
Thomas Rosales Jr.
USA
Best movies:
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Heat (1995)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Laurent Le Doyen
Best movies:
Maigret (1991) (series)
The Lady and the Duke (2001)
Les Cœurs brûlés (1992) (series)
Starr Andreeff
Canada
Best movies:
The Deliberate Stranger (1986) (TV movie)
Syngenor (1990)
Breast Men (1997) (TV movie)
Edith Fields
USA
Best movies:
Force: Five (1981)
Dad (1989)
Micki + Maude (1984)
Diana Barrows
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
My Mom's a Werewolf (1989)
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
Victor A. Haddox
USA
Best movies:
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Lovelines (1984)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)
Monique Mannen
Best movies:
Coming to America (1988)
A Chorus Line (1985)
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)