The duchess

Resource Information

The work The duchess represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Milton Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The duchess

Statement of responsibility

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

Contributor

• BBC Films
• BIM Distribuzione
• Magnolia Mae Films (Firm)
• Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Paramount Vantage
• Pathé Distribution Limited
• Pathé Renn Production
• Qwerty Films (Firm)
• Cooper, Dominic, 1978-
• Dibb, Saul
• Fiennes, Ralph
• Foreman, Amanda, 1968-
• Hatcher, Jeffrey, 1957-
• Jensen, Anders Thomas, 1972-
• Knightley, Keira, 1985-
• Kuhn, Michael
• Rampling, Charlotte, 1946-
• Tana, Gabrielle

Subject

• Adultery -- England -- Fiction
• Devonshire, Georgiana Spencer Cavendish, Duchess of, 1757-1806 -- Fiction
• Feature films
• Foreman, Amanda, 1968- -- Film and video adaptations
• Married women -- England -- Fiction
• Scandals -- England -- Fiction
• Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- England -- Fiction
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Fiction
• Film and video adaptations

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

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

Cataloging source

lbi

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Gyula Pados ; editor, Masahiro Hirakubo ; music, Rachel Portman

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A

Language note

• Includes audio tracks and subtitles in English, French and Spanish
• Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired

PerformerNote

Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper

Runtime

109

Target audience

general

Technique

live action