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Where was The Governess filmed?

1998 film, directed by Sandra Goldbacher.

  • Pinewood Studios

The story is set in London, so the filming stayed close to the setting.

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Set in
London
Filmed in
Pinewood Studios
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About The Governess

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Released
1998
Director
Sandra Goldbacher
Cast
Minnie DriverTom WilkinsonJonathan Rhys Meyers
Genre
DramaRomance

Set in the 1830s, the story centres on Rosina da Silva, the sophisticated eldest daughter of a wealthy Jewish family living in a small enclave of Sephardic London Jews.

She quickly accepts a position as governess for a Scottish landed gentry family living on the Isle of Skye in the Hebrides.

He is delighted to find a kindred spirit in his isolation, and the admiration she feels soon turns to passion that he reciprocates.

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