- BFI identifier392660
- Date1995 (Copyright)
1995-06-16 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom, USA
- Production company
- SynopsisDrama which recounts the period spent by Thomas Jefferson in Paris as America's Ambassador to France. He was a 41 year-old widower, and was accommpanied by his teenage daughter and his black, slave manservant. France was on the brink of revolution. The story relates Jefferson's platonic relationship with a free-spirited painter and society flirt, Maria Cosway, and the beginning of his sexual liaison with the sister of his manservant, also a slave, who bore him several children. (Synopsis)
- Work historyIn Cannes Film Festival (Sélection Officiell) 1995.
- Genre
- CategoryFiction
- CreditsDirector: James Ivory
Production Company: Merchant Ivory Productions Ltd
Executive Producer: Donald Rosenfeld
view all - CastNick Nolte (Thomas Jefferson)
Greta Scacchi (Maria Cosway)
Simon Callow (Richard Cosway)
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Title
Jefferson in Paris (Original)
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