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Release Date: 1998

Cast: Adam Levy, Raymond Brody, Bruce Myers, Cyril Shaps, Diana Brooks, Minnie Driver, Ofra Haza, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Arlene Cockburn, Ralph Riach, Countess Koulinskyi, Harriet Walter ...MORE

Cast: Adam Levy, Raymond Brody, Bruce Myers, Cyril Shaps, Diana Brooks, Minnie Driver, Ofra Haza, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Arlene Cockburn, Ralph Riach, Countess Koulinskyi, Harriet Walter, Tom Wilkinson, Kendal Cramer, Emma Bird, Florence Hoath ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Romantic drama, Romance Film, Period piece

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. Set in the 1830s, the story centers on Rosina da Silva, the sophisticated elder daughter in a wealthy Jewish Italian family living in London. When her father is murdered on the street and leaves behind numerous debts, she forsakes an arranged marriage to an older suitor, transforms herself into Mary Blackchurch - a Protestant of... MORE

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. Set in the 1830s, the story centers on Rosina da Silva, the sophisticated elder daughter in a wealthy Jewish Italian family living in London. When her father is murdered on the street and leaves behind numerous debts, she forsakes an arranged marriage to an older suitor, transforms herself into Mary Blackchurch - a Protestant of partial Italian descent - in order to conceal her heritage, and accepts a position as a governess for a Scottish family living on the Isle of Skye in the Hebrides. Patriarch Charles Cavendish is a man of science intent on solving the problem of retaining a photographic image on paper, while his wife flounders in a sea of ennui. Their young daughter Clementina initially resists Mary's discipline, but eventually finds in her a friend and companion. Mary, well-educated and unusually curious for a female in an era when a woman's primary focus is keeping house and attending to the needs of her family, LESS