SYNOPSIS

Set at the end of the eighteenth century, The Duchess is the story of the beautiful and, glamorous Georgiana Spencer, the most fascinating woman of the age.

While her beauty and charisma made her name, her extravagant tastes and appetite for gambling and love made her infamous. Married young to the older, distant Duke of Devonshire, intimate of ministers and princes, Georgiana became a fashion icon, a doting mother, a shrewd political operator and darling of the common people. But at the core of her story is a desperate search for love.

From Georgiana’s passionate and doomed affair with Earl Grey to the complex ménage à trois with her husband and her best friend, Lady Bess Foster, The Duchess is a very contemporary tale of fame, notoriety and the search for love.


TRAILER


RELEASE DATE

September 05, 2008

DIRECTOR

Saul Dibb

WRITER

Jeffrey Hatcher, Anders Thomas Jensen

COMPANY

Pathé

GENRE

Drama, History

CERT

12A

RUNTIME

110 minutes

IMAGES