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 is a 1989 film based on the life story of Aimée du Buc de Rivéry that takes place at the dawn of the 19th century. 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.
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| Release date: | 1989 |
| Directed by: | Jack Smight |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 104 Minutes |
| Editor: | Dennis Virkler |
| Adapted from: | Sultana - La Nuit du Serail |
| Genre: | Adventure |