Rosina 'Rosie' da Silva, aka Mary Blackchurch
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The Governess is a 1998 British period drama film starring Minnie Driver as a Jewish governess who invents photography. The film explores her relationship with her employer, a scientist who betrays her, and her identity as a Sephardic Jew.
The Governess: Directed by Sandra Goldbacher. With Minnie Driver, Tom Wilkinson, Florence Hoath, Jonathan Rhys Meyers. In this sensuous romance, Minnie Driver stars as a governess who is hired into a remote Scottish household and strongly affects all those she comes into contact with.
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- Drama, Romance
- Sandra Goldbacher
- 1998-07-31
The Governess Trailer 1998Director: Sandra GoldbacherStarring: Minnie Driver, Tom Wilkenson, Florence Hoath, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet Wal...
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Aug 21, 1998 · “The Governess” could be an illustration of the ideas in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, in which she marvels at how necessary it is for men to have women to feel superior to. The film tells the story of an educated, spirited Jewish girl from London who, in the 1840s, finds work as a governess on a remote Scottish ...
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...
Following her father's murder, a London Jew, Rosina da Silva (Minnie Driver), reinvents herself as a Protestant governess on a remote Scottish island.
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The Governess (1998) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
