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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.
Jul 31, 1998 · The Governess: Directed by Sandra Goldbacher. With Minnie Driver, Tom Wilkinson, Florence Hoath, Jonathan Rhys Meyers. In this sensuous romance, Minnie Driver stars as a governess who is hired into a remote Scottish household and strongly affects all those she comes into contact with.
Aug 21, 1998 · The film tells the story of an educated, spirited Jewish girl from London who, in the 1840s, finds work as a governess on a remote Scottish island to support her family. She enters a household where she is clearly the intellectual equal of the father, and that is more than he can take--although he gives it a good try.
Dec 1, 2014 · The Governess Trailer 1998 Director: Sandra Goldbacher Starring: Minnie Driver, Tom Wilkenson, Florence Hoath, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet Walter Official Content From Sony ...
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Set in England between the Georgian and Victorian eras, THE GOVERNESS takes its title from a young Jewish woman who, after the death of her father, is offered the job of nanny for the gentile ...
Following her father's murder, a London Jew, Rosina da Silva (Minnie Driver), reinvents herself as a Protestant governess on a remote Scottish island.
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THE GOVERNESS is a moody period piece, the meandering story of a Jewish woman who, upon the death of her father, sets out to 1830's Scotland, posing as a Gentile to get work to support her family in London.
A sensual romance, THE GOVERNESS stars Minnie Driver as Rosina Da Silva, a high-spirited young woman forced to forsake her heritage after her father's murder. Tom Wilkinson (The Full Monty) co-stars as Driver's employer Cavendish, an isolated gentleman whose only passion is for his work.
Securing a position as a governess, Rosina -- now calling herself Mary Blackchurch -- journeys anxiously to a remote Scottish island where even the landscape seems alien to everything she knows. Her new home is as bleak as the welcome she receives from her new employers, the wealthy Cavendish family.
