Jefferson in Paris
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| Directed by | James Ivory |
| Produced by | Ismail Merchant Humbert Balsan (co-producer) Paul Bradley (executive) Donald Rosenfeld (executive) |
| Written by | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| Starring | Nick Nolte Greta Scacchi Jean-Pierre Aumont Simon Callow Seth Gilliam James Earl Jones Michael Lonsdale Nancy Marchand Thandie Newton Gwyneth Paltrow Charlotte de Turckheim Lambert Wilson Elsa Zylberstein |
| Music by | Richard Robbins (score) Antonio Sacchini (opera Dardanus", conducted by William Christie) |
| Cinematography | Pierre Lhomme |
| Editing by | Isabelle Lorente Andrew Marcus |
| Distributed by | Touchstone Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 31 March 1995 |
| Running time | 139 minutes |
| Country | France, United States |
| Language | English, French |
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Jefferson in Paris is a 1995 Merchant Ivory Productions/Touchstone Pictures' film with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The film was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant. Selected for Cannes Film Festival's Official Selection in May 1995.
It is about the historical figure Thomas Jefferson as the U.S. Ambassador to France, before he became President.
Starring Nick Nolte (as Thomas Jefferson) and Greta Scacchi (as Maria Cosway).
Co-starring Jean-Pierre Aumont, Simon Callow, Seth Gilliam, James Earl Jones, Michael Lonsdale (as Louis XVI), Nancy Marchand, Thandie Newton (as Sally Hemings), Gwyneth Paltrow (as Martha Jefferson), Charlotte de Turckheim (as Marie-Antoinette) and Lambert Wilson (as Marquis de Lafayette).
Also with Tim Choate, Elsa Zylberstein (as Madame de Lafayette), Nicolas Silberg, Catherine Samie, Vernon Dobtcheff, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Vincent Cassel (as Camille Desmoulins), Laure Marsac (cameo) etc...
Also baroque music performance by William Christie & Les Arts Florissants (Jory Vinikour, Emmanuel Balssa, Simon Heyerick, Hiro Kurosaki) with singers Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Sandrine Piau, Sophie Daneman. Period Music by Antonio Sacchini's opera "Dardanus", Marc-Antoine Charpentier's" In Hoc Festo", Arcangelo Corelli's "La Folia", Jacques Duphly's "Courante", etc...
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