Die Geschichte der Dienerin (1990)

Die Geschichte der Dienerin: Directed by Volker Schlöndorff. With Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern. Under a dystopian religious tyranny, most women cannot conceive children. Those young women who can live in a form of sexual slavery to provide children for influential families.

“I have just one point to make about this film, and that is why on earth did the director decided to name Offred kate. In the book, which I hope to god the producers etc actually read, there is no mention of the name kate what so ever, the only name that we could possibly guess would be June which is supplied to us in the first chapter but even then we never learn her real name. And this is of great significant importance, the fact that we as readers or viewers never learn her name means something and to simply choose a name out of a hat is destroying a piece of the character created for us by Margaret Attwood. Also reading the plot outline makes me wonder whether whoever wrote that even saw the film, especially where it says u0026quot;Kate is a criminal, guilty of the crime of trying to escape from the US, and is sentenced to become a Handmaid.u0026quot; when really u0026quot;KATEu0026quot; becomes a handmaid as her husband was married once before and their marriage never really existed in the eyes of the law. Also i read on to see that u0026quot;After ruthless group training by Serena Joy in the proper way to behave, Kate is assigned as Handmaid to the Commander.u0026quot; Well that is not at all true as anyone who has seen this film will notice that Serena Joy is the commanders wife and not one of the Aunts and the Red Centre. Please in the future get your facts right and also thanks to director Volker Schlöndorff for ruining a perfectly enjoyable book. My advice stick to the book and not the watered down version for the small minded.”