
Firelight
1998•103 min•
★6.7
RomanceDrama
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.
Cast & Crew

Sophie Marceau
Elisabeth Laurier

Stephen Dillane
Charles Godwin

Dominique Belcourt
Louisa Godwin

Kevin Anderson
John Taylor

Joss Ackland
Lord Clare

Lia Williams
Constance

Sally Dexter
Molly Holland

Emma Amos
Ellen

Maggie McCarthy
Mrs. Jago

Wolf Kahler
Sussman

DirectorWilliam Nicholson
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