Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Queen of the desert / IFC Films presents in association with 120dB Films and Palmyra Films ; a Benaroya Pictures and Elevated Films production ; written and directed by Werner Herzog.

Publisher, Date:

[Los Angeles, California] : Shout Factory, [2017]

Description:

1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

A true story of a trailblazing woman who found freedom in the faraway world of the Middle East. Gertrude Bell chafes against the stifling rigidity of life in turn-of-the-century England, leaving it behind for a chance to travel to Tehran. So begins her lifelong adventure across the Arab world, a journey marked by danger, a passionate affair with a British officer, and an encounter with the legendary T.E. Lawrence.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG-13; for brief nudity and some thematic elements.

Subjects:

Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868-1926 -- Drama.

Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935 -- Drama.

Women Asianists -- Drama.

Colonial administrators -- Middle East -- Drama.

Genre:

Fiction films.

Historical films.

Feature films.

Biographical films.