---
title: 'Firelight (1997)'
type: 'film'
director: 'William Nicholson'
released: '1997-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 103
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
  - 'France'
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/firelight-1997'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119125/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Firelight (1997)

1997 · 103 min · Drama, Romance · United Kingdom, France, United States


## Synopsis

Firelight is a 1997 period romance film written and directed by William Nicholson and starring Sophie Marceau and Stephen Dillane. The film is about a woman who agrees to bear the child of an anonymous English landowner in return for payment to resolve her father's debts. When the child is born, the woman gives up the child as agreed. Seven years later, the woman is hired as a governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The girl's father is the anonymous landowner. Filmed on location in Firle, England and Calvados, France, the film premiered at the Deauville American Film Festival on 14 September 1997. Firelight was Nicholson's first film as a director.

## Credits

- **Producer:** [Sophie Marceau](https://cinepixo.com/people/sophie-marceau), [Stephen Dillane](https://cinepixo.com/people/stephen-dillane)
- **Director:** [William Nicholson](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-nicholson)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Christopher Gunning](https://cinepixo.com/people/christopher-gunning)

## Cast

- [Sophie Marceau](https://cinepixo.com/people/sophie-marceau)
- [Joss Ackland](https://cinepixo.com/people/joss-ackland)
- [Annabel Giles](https://cinepixo.com/people/annabel-giles)
- [John Hodgkinson](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-hodgkinson)
- [Stephen Dillane](https://cinepixo.com/people/stephen-dillane)
- [Kevin Anderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/kevin-anderson)
- [Wolf Kahler](https://cinepixo.com/people/wolf-kahler)
- [Lia Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/lia-williams)

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