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An engagement or betrothal is a promise to marry, and also the period of time between proposal and marriage – which may be lengthy or trivial. During this period, a couple is said to be betrothed, affianced, engaged to be married, or simply engaged. Future brides and grooms may be called the betrothed, a wife-to-be or husband-to-be, fiancées or fiancés, respectively (from the French word fiancé). The duration of the courtship varies vastly.
Long engagements were once common in formal arranged marriages and it was not uncommon for parents betrothing children to arrange such many years before the engaged couple were old enough to marry.
The origins of European engagement in marriage practice is found in the Jewish law (Torah), first exemplified by Abraham, and outlined in the last Talmudic tractate of the Nashim (Women) order, where marriage consists of two separate acts, called erusin (or kiddushin, meaning sanctification), which is the betrothal ceremony, and nissu'in or chupah, the actual ceremony for the marriage. Erusin changes the couple's interpersonal status, while nissu'in brings about the legal consequences of the change of status. (However, in the Talmud and other sources of Jewish law there is also a process, called shidduchin, corresponding to what today is called engagement. Marrying without such an agreement is considered immoral. To complicate matters,erusin in modern Hebrew means engagement, not betrothal.)
Actors: Thean-jeen Lee (director), Shu An Oon (actress), William Lawandi (actor), Tracy Tan (actress), Joan Tan (miscellaneous crew), Laura Kee (actress), Irene Ang (producer), Ai Leng Tan (producer), Edric Hsu (actor), Ai Leng Tan (writer), Gim Goh (actor), Victoria Cheng (actress), Elf Cheong (producer), Harry Yew (actor), Donavan Darren Tan (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,Actors: Daniel Kuhlman (actor), David Schmudde (writer), David Schmudde (composer), David Schmudde (director), Kathryn Henderson (actress), Caleb Condit (composer),
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Plot: There are two ways of seing The Scoundrel: one, as the story of a vigilante friar, zealous caretaker of goodness and order who, after suffering unrequited love for an engaged woman, becomes a terrifying villain in a quiet town. Another, as the lost film of Conrad Wilhelm Meyersick, a German engineer and amateur filmmaker who, in 1920, was in Guimarães, a small town in northern Portugal, to install three weaving machines in a factory and, during his stay, filmed this story.
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Genres: Drama,Funcake like this Sunkist
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