The duchess, Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films presents in association with Pathé Renn Productions and BIM Distribuzione ; Qwerty Films ; Magnolia Mae Films ; produced by Michael Kuhn, Gabrielle Tana ; screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher and Anders Thomas Jensen and Saul Dibb ; directed by Saul Dibb
Type
Label
The duchess, Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films presents in association with Pathé Renn Productions and BIM Distribuzione ; Qwerty Films ; Magnolia Mae Films ; produced by Michael Kuhn, Gabrielle Tana ; screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher and Anders Thomas Jensen and Saul Dibb ; directed by Saul Dibb
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A
Main title
The duchess
Medium
videorecording
Responsibility statement
Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films presents in association with Pathé Renn Productions and BIM Distribuzione ; Qwerty Films ; Magnolia Mae Films ; produced by Michael Kuhn, Gabrielle Tana ; screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher and Anders Thomas Jensen and Saul Dibb ; directed by Saul Dibb
Runtime
109
Summary
Chronicles the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. She was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life. She was a vibrant beauty and celebrity of her time. Georgiana is trapped in an unhappy marital triangle with her husband and his live-in mistress. She falls passionately in love with Earl Grey, an ambitious young politician, and the affair causes a bitter conflict with her husband and threatens to erupt into a scandal. Now she must face an agonizing choice between her hopeless but passionate love affair or her responsibilities as a duchess
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
Classification
Contributor
- BIM Distribuzione
- Rampling, Charlotte, 1946-
- Qwerty Films (Firm)
- Pathé Distribution Limited
- Knightley, Keira, 1985-
- Tana, Gabrielle
- Jensen, Anders Thomas, 1972-
- Fiennes, Ralph
- Kuhn, Michael
- Foreman, Amanda, 1968-
- Dibb, Saul
- BBC Films
- Magnolia Mae Films (Firm)
- Hatcher, Jeffrey, 1957-
- Pathé Renn Production
- Cooper, Dominic, 1978-
- Paramount Vantage
- Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
Subject
- Foreman, Amanda, 1968- -- Film and video adaptations
- Married women -- England -- Fiction
- Feature films
- Scandals -- England -- Fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- England -- Fiction
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Adultery -- England -- Fiction
- Devonshire, Georgiana Spencer Cavendish, Duchess of, 1757-1806 -- Fiction
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor18
- BIM Distribuzione
- Rampling, Charlotte, 1946-
- Qwerty Films (Firm)
- Pathé Distribution Limited
- Knightley, Keira, 1985-
- Tana, Gabrielle
- Jensen, Anders Thomas, 1972-
- Fiennes, Ralph
- Kuhn, Michael
- Foreman, Amanda, 1968-
- Dibb, Saul
- BBC Films
- Magnolia Mae Films (Firm)
- Hatcher, Jeffrey, 1957-
- Pathé Renn Production
- Cooper, Dominic, 1978-
- Paramount Vantage
- Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
- Subject8
- Foreman, Amanda, 1968- -- Film and video adaptations
- Married women -- England -- Fiction
- Feature films
- Scandals -- England -- Fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- England -- Fiction
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Adultery -- England -- Fiction
- Devonshire, Georgiana Spencer Cavendish, Duchess of, 1757-1806 -- Fiction