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The Governess

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

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

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