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Directed by | Luc Besson[1] |
Written by | Rebecca Frayn[2] |
Produced by | Virginie Besson-Silla Andy Harries Jean Todt |
Starring | Michelle Yeoh David Thewlis[3] Jonathan Woodhouse Jonathan Raggett |
Cinematography | Thierry Arbogast |
Edited by | Julien Rey |
Music by | Éric Serra Sade |
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Distributed by | Entertainment Film Distributors (United Kingdom) EuropaCorp Distribution (France) |
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Running time | 135 minutes |
Countries | United Kingdom France |
Languages | English Burmese |
Budget | €22.1 million[4] |
Box office | $7.8 million[5] |
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The Lady is a 2011 British biographical film directed by Luc Besson,[6] starring Michelle Yeoh[7] as Aung San Suu Kyi and David Thewlis[8] as her late husband Michael Aris.[9] Yeoh called the film "a labour of love" but also confessed it had felt intimidating for her to play the Nobel laureate.[10]