“Jefferson in Paris” ( born Jefferson in Paris ) - a film directed by James Ivory , released in 1995 . The tape participated in the competition program of the Cannes Film Festival .
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| Genre | melodrama historical |
| Producer | James Ivory |
| Producer | Ismail Merchant |
| Author script | Ruth Praver Jabwala |
| In the main cast | Nick Nolte Greta Skachki Gwyneth Paltrow |
| Operator | Pierre Lomme |
| Composer | Richard Robbins |
| Film company | Touchstone pictures Merchant Ivory Productions , Center National de la Cinématographie |
| Duration | 139 minutes |
| Budget | $ 14 million |
| Fees | $ 2.5 million (in the USA) |
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| Language | English French |
| Year | and |
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Content
- 1 plot
- 2 Cast
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Story
1873 year . U.S. In Ohio , Pike County , a local newspaper reporter finds a poor Negro family of elderly Madison and Mary Hemings. The reporter is interested in the story of their possible long-standing relationship with former third US President Thomas Jefferson . Madison Hemings recalls his mother, a former slave of Thomas Jefferson, trying to restore events almost a hundred years ago for the reporter ...
1785 year . The future third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, first finds himself abroad, as the US ambassador to France , at the sunset of Louis XVI , just before the start of the French Revolution . Despite his rigorous convictions, Jefferson is successful in the depraved Parisian high society.
A beautiful artist and musician of Anglo-Italian descent, Maria Cosway , traveling with her husband in France, captivates Jefferson, whose wife recently died. However, out of respect for the daughters and the memory of his wife, he, not outwardly, but in his soul, rejects Mary in love with him. Feeling this, she leaves Jefferson, but continues to correspond with him.
Jefferson’s next hobby in Paris is his own young quarter - slave Sally Hemings - the governess of his youngest daughter sent from America and the half-sister of his recently deceased wife.
1789 year . The newly elected first president of the United States, George Washington, offers Jefferson the post of Secretary of State , and he is about to return to America, but his slave James Hemings, Sally's brother, wants to stay in France, whose laws do not recognize slavery . To persuade James to return, the future secretary of state promises to give freedom to James and his sister Sally, who is already pregnant with her first child from Thomas Jefferson.
Cast
- Nick Nolte - Thomas Jefferson
- Greta Skacca - Maria Cosway
- Gwyneth Paltrow - Martha ("Patsy") Jefferson
- Thandie Newton - Sally Hemings
- Seth Gilliam - James Hemings
- Simon Callow - Richard Cosway
- Lambert Wilson - Marquis de Lafayette
- Estelle Eonne - Mary ("Polly") Jefferson
- Nigel Whitmy - John Trumbull
- Elsa Silberstein - Adrianna de Lafayette
- Jean-Pierre Omont - D'Ancarville
- Michael Lonsdale - Louis XVI
- Charlotte de Turkheim - Marie Antoinette
- Damien Gröll - Dauphin of France
- Valerie Toledano - Madame Elizabeth
- Steve Kalfa - Dr. Guillotin
- Nancy Marchand - Abbess
- Daniel Mesgish - Mesmer
- Vincent Cassel - Camille Demoulins
- James Earl Jones - Madison Hemings
- Philippines Leroy Beaulieu - participant in the game