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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.
- $3.8 million (US)
- Edward Shearmur
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Jul 31, 1998 · A governess poses as a gentile and falls in love with a Scottish lord in this sensuous drama. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, awards, trivia, and more for this film.
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- Drama, Romance
- Sandra Goldbacher
- 1998-07-31
Aug 21, 1998 · A film about a Jewish governess who falls in love with a Scottish photographer in the 1840s. Roger Ebert praises Minnie Driver's performance and the film's themes of identity, photography and seduction.
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 offere...
Jul 10, 1998 · A beautiful, tempestuous young Jewish woman poses as a Christian governess to support her destitute family until a forbidden love affair reveals her true identity. Minnie Driver in The Governess.
Following her father's murder, a London Jew, Rosina da Silva (Minnie Driver), reinvents herself as a Protestant governess on a remote Scottish island. Schooling the Cavendish family's daughter ...
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