Jefferson in Paris

Plot

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 subjug... read more

  • James Ivory

    Director

  • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

    Writer

  • Pierre Lhomme

    Director of Photography

  • Andrew Marcus

    Editor

  • Isabelle Lorente

    Editor

  • 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

  • Runtime

    139 minutes

    Released

    1995-03-31

    Languages

    English

    Countries

    France

    United States of America

    United Kingdom

    Studios

    Merchant Ivory Productions

    Touchstone Pictures

    Franco London Films

    Sound

  • Richard Robbins

    Original Music Composer

  • Updated

    66 days ago

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