The Lady
- IMDb link: 1802197
- IMDb rating: 7 (11,653 votes)
- Genres: Drama, Biography, Romance, History
- Director: Luc Besson, David Thewlis
- Cast: Michelle Yeoh, Markus Waldow, Jonathan Raggett and others
- Release date: 30 Nov 2011
- Release year: 2011
- Runtime: 132 minutes
- Country: France, United Kingdom, Thailand
- Keywords: burma, based on true story, 1990s, nobel prize winner, violence, reference to the who, reference to u2, torture, power outage, political intimidation
Plot:
THE LADY is an epic love story about how an extraordinary couple and family sacrifice their happiness at great human cost for a higher cause. This is the story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband, Michael Aris. Despite distance, long separations, and a dangerously hostile regime, their love endures until the very end. A story of devotion and human understanding set against a background of political turmoil which continues today. THE LADY also is the story of the peaceful quest of the woman who is at the core of Burma's democracy movement.