Firelight 1998

Synopsis

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.

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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

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