Information
- BFI identifier487851
- Date1997 (Copyright)
1998-10-23 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom, France
- Production company
- SynopsisDrama set in Victorian Britain. A young Jewish woman, after the death of her father, disguises her religious heritage, changes her name, and takes a job as a governess to a family on the Isle of Skye. There she begins to help the master of the house in his photographic experiments and a passionate attraction develops between them. (Synopsis)
- Genre
- Subject
- CreditsDirector: Sandra Goldbacher
©: Parallax (The Governess) Ltd
Production Company: Pandora Cinema
view all - CastMinnie Driver (Rosina DaSilva, 'Mary Blackchurch')
Tom Wilkinson (Charles Cavendish)
Harriet Walter (Mrs Cavendish)
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Title
The Governess (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/E65E-3B57-715E-DF26-90EB-0Category
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
- Collections
- Film / Video
- Scripts / DocumentsScript - Script type: Release Script - Domestic Version - SCR-2469
Script - Script type: Shooting Script - 4th Draft - SCR-2734
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-487851
Soundtrack CD held. Information folder held. Unfilmed small pressbook held.
view all - Posters / DesignsPoster: film - Single Sheet, Landscape, 1017mm X 763mm Poster - PD-10761
Poster: film - Single Sheet, Landscape, 1017mm X 763mm Poster - PD-12493
Poster: film - Single Sheet, Landscape, 1017mm X 763mm Poster - PD-12494
view all - StillsPhotograph: transparency - SPD-275788
Photograph: transparency - SPD-275789
Photograph: transparency - SPD-275790
Photograph: transparency - SPD-275791
Photograph: transparency - SPD-275792
view all - ArticlesFilm Quarterly v54 n4 Summer 2001 - ArticleEyepiece v20 n3 Jun/Jul 1999 - Article, FilmographyFilm-Echo/Filmwoche n37 12 Sep 1998 - Article, ReviewScreen International n1117 18 Jul 1997 - Credits, Prod. DetailsPremiere v5 n9 October 1997 - Interviewview all
- Books
- +The Governess
Work - 487851 - 1997 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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