Firelight

IMDb 6.7 1998 • 103 min • RomanceDrama

Director

William Nicholson

Country

GB

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Sophie Marceau
Sophie Marceau Elisabeth Laurier
Stephen Dillane
Stephen Dillane Charles Godwin
Dominique Belcourt
Dominique Belcourt Louisa Godwin
Kevin Anderson
Kevin Anderson John Taylor
Joss Ackland
Joss Ackland Lord Clare