The Favorite (1989)

Directors

Jack Smight

Cast

F. Murray Abraham, Maud Adams, Amber O'Shea, James Michael Gregary, Laurent Le Doyen, Ron Dortch, Glenn Scarpelli, Jonathan Vuille, Francesco Quinn, Andréa Parisy, Robere Kazadi, Celeste Simpson-Boyd, Diana Barrows, Gérard Touroul, Faruk Peker

The story

A young French woman named Aimée is kidnapped and taken to the Ottoman Empire, where she is forced into a sultan's harem. Fiercely independent, she resists at first, but ultimately realises that she must make choices in order to survive. She begins to influence the Sultan to adopt fairer methods of resolving conflicts, but finds herself at odds with another of his wives who wants her son, Mustafa, to become the new Sultan.

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