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Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.

Corporate Author: Vrouwenkoor Malle Babbe., Fox Searchlight Pictures., Village Roadshow Pictures., YTC Motion Picture Investments (Firm), Planet Pictures (Firm), Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.
Other Authors: Yap, Andrew., Burke, Graham., Beresford, Bruce., Milliken, Sue, 1940-, Coote, Greg, 1942-, Close, Glenn, 1947-, McDormand, Frances., Collins, Pauline, 1940-, Blanchett, Cate, 1969-, Ehle, Jennifer, 1969-, Margulies, Julianna, 1966-, Meader, Martin., Giles, David., Van Shaik, Leny., Jeffrey, Betty, 1908-2000.
Format: Videos DVD
Language: English
French
Spanish
Published: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Ã2000.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese > Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 > Women > Drama.
Prisoners of war > Indonesia > Sumatra > Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 > Music and the war > Drama.
Music > Psychological aspects > Drama.
Music in prisons > Drama.
Choirs (Music) > Women > Drama.
Female friendship > Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 > Drama.
Feature films.
War films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Summary: Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.
Item Description: Originally released as a motion picture in 1997.
"Based in part on the diaries of Betty Jeffrey as published in White Coolies."
Includes theatrical trailer and trailers for other Fox films.
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: DVD, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; NTSC ; Region 1 ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby surround.
Audience: MPAA rating: R.
Production Credits: Director of photography, Peter James ; composer, Ross Edwards ; editor, Tim Wellburn.

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