Firelight

Firelight (1998) is a romance, drama film directed by William Nicholson rated 6.7/10.

In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth Laurier agrees to bear a child of an 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 girl's father, 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

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

Annabel Giles

Amy Godwin

John Flanagan

Robert Ames