Firelight poster
Director William Nicholson
Writer William Nicholson

Firelight

Tagline: Passion has no limits.

Release Date: 1998-05-27

Duration: 103 minutes

Synopsis

In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter's governess, and she can't reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa.

Casting

  • Sophie Marceau
    Elisabeth Laurier
  • Stephen Dillane
    Charles Godwin
  • Lia Williams
    Constance
  • Joss Ackland
    Lord Clare
  • Wolf Kahler
    Sussman
  • Kevin Anderson
    John Taylor
  • Maggie McCarthy
    Mrs. Jago
  • Emma Amos
    Ellen
  • Hugh Walters
    Dr. Geddes
  • Sally Dexter
    Molly Holland