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The Governess(Movie, 1998)

1h 55min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love

Rating: 2.9/5 (with 11 votes)

The Governess is a 1998 British period drama film written and directed by Sandra Goldbacher. The screenplay focuses on a young Jewish woman of Sephardic background, who reinvents herself as a gentile governess when she is forced to find work to support her family. ()

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When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.

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Additional Information

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)

Shot in: Pinewood Studios

Plays in: London

Made by: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Arts Council of England, British Screen Productions

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 8 languages: Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU)

Status: Released

Release date US: 07/31/1998

Cast: Minnie Driver, Tom Wilkinson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Director: Sandra Goldbacher

Screenwriter: Sandra Goldbacher

Composer: Edward Shearmur

Keywords: scotland, gentile, kissing, woman director, loss of virginity

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Other movies with this title: The Governess (TR, 1919), The Governess (IT, 1974)

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