Format:
DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:
The breadwinner / an Aircraft Pictures, Cartoon Saloon, Melusine Productions film in association with Jolie Pas Productions ; directed by Nora Twomey ; screen story by Deborah Ellis ; screenplay by Anita Doron ; produced by Anthony Leo [and four others].
Publisher, Date:
Universal City, CA : Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, [2018]
Description:
1 videodisc (1 hr., 33 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
digital optical surround Dolby Digital 5.1
NTSC
video file DVD video region 1
Summary:
Parvana is an eleven-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana cuts off her hair and dresses like a boy in order to support her family. Working alongside her friend Shauzia, Parvana discovers a new world of freedom, and danger. With undaunted courage, Parvana draws strength from the fantastical stories she invents, as she embarks on a quest to find her father and reunite her family.
Target Audience Note:
Rating: PG-13; for thematic material including some violent images.
Subjects:
Ellis, Deborah, 1960- -- Film adaptations.
Taliban -- Drama.
Girls -- Afghanistan -- Drama.
Sex role -- Afghanistan -- Drama.
Women's rights -- Afghanistan -- Drama.
Genre:
Feature films.
Animated films.
Film adaptations.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Author:
Twomey, Nora, film director.
Doron, Anita, 1974- screenwriter.
Leo, Anthony, film producer.
Cauhdarī, Sārah, voice actor.
Chhaya, Soma, voice actor.
Sadiq, Laara, voice actor.
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Ellis, Deborah, 1960- Breadwinner series.
Aircraft Pictures (Firm), producer company.
Cartoon Saloon (Firm), producer company.
Melusine Productions, producer company.
Jolie Pas (Firm), producer company.
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm), publisher.
Notes:
Title from web page.
Based on the book by Deborah Ellis.
Anamorphic wide screen (2.39:1).
Bonus features: Introduction by director Nora Twomey and executive producer Angelina Jolie; audio commentary with the filmmakers; the making of "The breadwinner"; theatrical trailer.
Editor, Darragh Byrne ; music, Mychael Danna, Jeff Danna ; director: Nora Twormey.
Voices, Saara Chaudry, Soma Chhaya, Laara Sadiq, Shaista Latif, Ali Badshah, Noorin Gulamgaus.
DVD.
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
ISBN:
9786317162921 : DVD
6317162921 : DVD
Publisher or Distributor Number:
44195705
Other Number:
1022567148
System Availability:
2
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
2
Control Number:
711829
Call Number:
DVD MOVIE Breadwin
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
2
# System items in:
2