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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

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, (Author of The Breadwinner). 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 Number:

44195705

Other Number:

1022567148

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

711829

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Breadwin