Drama Romance History
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.
Directed by
James Ivory
Written by
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Nick Nolte
Thomas Jefferson
Vincent Cassel
Camille Desmoulins
James Earl Jones
Madison Hemings
Thandiwe Newton
Sally Hemings
Gwyneth Paltrow
Patsy Jefferson
Greta Scacchi
Maria Cosway
William Moseley
George Washington de Lafayette
Lambert Wilson
Marquis de Lafayette
Michael Lonsdale
Louis XVI
Seth Gilliam
James Hemings
Simon Callow
Richard Cosway
Jean-Pierre Aumont
D'Hancarville
Elsa Zylberstein
Adrienne de Lafayette
Todd Boyce
William Short
Thibault de Montalembert
Assistant
Nancy Marchand
Madame Abbesse
Joanna Merlin
Vernon Dobtcheff
King's Translator
Charlotte de Turckheim
Marie Antoinette
Beatrice Winde
Mary Hemings
Nicolas Silberg
Monsieur Petit
Daniel Mesguich
Mesmer
Steve Kalfa
Dr. Guillotin
Tim Choate
Reporter
Nigel Whitmey
John Trumbull
Jessica Lloyd
Julia

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