The Lady (The Lady)
Special Screening
Luc Besson / Feature Narrative / France, United Kingdom / 2011 / 127 min / Colour / HDCAM
In Burmese, English / Arabic, English subtitles
Interests: Women, Politics, Biography
MENA Premiere
Synopsis
The true story of Aung San Suu Kyi, the woman at the core of Burma’s democracy movement, and her husband, Michael Aris. An epic love story about how an extraordinary couple and family sacrifice their happiness at great human cost for a higher cause, “The Lady” is a story of devotion and human understanding set against a background of political turmoil which continues even today.
About the Directors
Luc Besson is a writer, director and producer born in Paris. He has more than one hundred film credits as a producer and notably directed “The Big Blue” (1988), “Nikita” (1990), “Leon: The Professional” (1994), “The Fifth Element” (1997), “Joan of Arc” (1999) and “The Extraordinary Adventures Of Adèle Blanc-Sec” (2010).
Credits
- Director
- Luc Besson
- Screenwriter
- Rebecca Frayn
- Producer
- Virginie Besson-Silla, Andy Harries
- Editor
- Julien Rey
- Music
- Eric Serra
- Cinematographer
- Thierry Arbogast
- Sales Company
- EuropaCorp.
- Distributor
- Gulf Film
- Cast
- Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, Jonathan Ragett, Jonathan Woodhouse