Jefferson in Paris

Jefferson in Paris (1995)

A powerful man torn between his love for one woman and his secret desire for another.

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.

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  • Release Date: 1995-03-31
  • Runtime: 2h 19min
  • Director: James Ivory

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    Cast

    • Nick Nolte

      Thomas Jefferson

    • Greta Scacchi

      Maria Cosway

    • Thandiwe Newton

      Sally Hemings

    • Gwyneth Paltrow

      Patsy Jefferson

    • Jean-Pierre Aumont

      D'Hancarville

    • Simon Callow

      Richard Cosway

    • Seth Gilliam

      James Hemings

    • James Earl Jones

      Madison Hemings

    • Michael Lonsdale

      Louis XVI

    • Nancy Marchand

      Madame Abbesse

    • Charlotte de Turckheim

      Marie Antoinette

    • Lambert Wilson

      Marquis de Lafayette

    • Vincent Cassel

      Camille Desmoulins

    • Steve Kalfa

      Dr. Guillotin

    • Jessica Lloyd

      Julia

    • Todd Boyce

      William Short

    • Nigel Whitmey

      John Trumbull

    • Nicolas Silberg

      Monsieur Petit

    • Elsa Zylberstein

      Adrienne de Lafayette

    • William Moseley

      George Washington de Lafayette

    • Vernon Dobtcheff

      King's Translator

    • Daniel Mesguich

      Mesmer

    • Thibault de Montalembert

      Assistant

    • Beatrice Winde

      Mary Hemings

    • Tim Choate

      Reporter

    • Ismail Merchant

      Royal Indian Man

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