The Favorite

Infobox Film
name = The Favorite (Intimate Power)


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director = Jack Smight
producer = Georges-Alain Vuille
Ascona Films Inc.
writer = Prince Michael of Greece (novel)
Larry Yust (screenplay)
starring = F. Murray Abraham
Maud Adams
Francesco Quinn
Amber O'Shea
music = William Goldstein
cinematography = Giorgio Tonti
Howard Wexler
editing = Dennis Virkler
Devon Heffley Curry, adr supervisor
art = R. Clifford Searcy
costumes = Tami Mor
Rina Ramon
stunts = Kenny Bates
distributor = Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
released = 9 August 1989 (France)
runtime = 104 min.
country = USA/Switzerland
language = English
budget =
gross =
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imdb_id = 0097341"For the opera by Donizetti, see La favorite. For the stadium in Palermo, Italy, see La Favorita. For the Canadian early music ensemble, see La Favoritte. For the Brazilian soap opera, see A Favorita."

"The Favorite" (also titled "Intimate Power") is a 1989 film based on a true story that takes place at the dawn of the 19th century.

Premise

A young French woman is kidnapped and forced into a sultan's harem in Turkey. Fiercely independent, she resists, but must make choices in order to survive. She begins to influence the sultan toward more fair manners of solving his conflicts, but finds herself at odds with another of his wives, who wants her son Mustafa to become the new sultan. As the years pass, she must deal with the new sultan's advances while protecting her adopted son Mahmud, and helping the Ottoman Empire against the Russians who have better weapons then they do.

The source for the story is a novel by Prince Michael of Greece titled "Sultana - La Nuit du Serail".

Cast

*F. Murray Abraham as Abdul Hamid
*Maud Adams as Sineperver
*Amber O'Shea as Aimée Dubucq de Rivéry
*Ron Dortch as Tulip
*James Michael Gregary as Selim
*Laurent Le Doyen as Sebastiani
*Francesco Quinn as Adult Mahmud
*Andréa Parisy as Mirishah
*Tom McGreevey as Uncle (as Thomas McGreevey)
*Celeste Simpson-Boyd as Zinah
*Robere Kazadi as Orchid
*Garth Wilton as British Consul
*Reuven Bar-Yotam as Algerian Captain
*Farouk Peker as Baktar
*John Kennedy Hayden as Chief Janissary
*Mike Johnson as First Mate
*Thomas Rosales Jr. as Third Mate
*Michael Saad as Jeweler
*Dale Dye as French Officer
*Joseph Darrell as Manservant
*Ayse Gungor as Harem Girl
*Starr Andreeff as Harem Girl
*Erica Zeitlin as Harem Girl
*Victoria Dakil as Old Woman
*Roz Witt as Nun
*George Marshall Ruge as Kamir
* Joe El Rady as Boy at the bazar
*Jonathan Vuille as Young Mahmud
*Glenn Scarpelli as Mustafa

Production

*Director: Jack Smight
*Production Company: Ascona Films, Inc.
*Filming Locations: Istanbul, Turkey

ources

*Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide.
*imdb title|id=0097341|title=The Favorite