Firelight

Name: Firelight
Director: William Nicholson
Released: 1997-01-01

1997 film by William Nicholson

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Released: 1997
, August 13, 1998
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1.kinokalender.com/film478_verborgenes-feuer.htmlRetrieved 2018-03-07
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Director: William Nicholson
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1.imdb.com/title/tt0119125/Retrieved 2016-04-14
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Producer: Sophie Marceau
, Stephen Dillane
Cast: Sophie Marceau
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1.imdb.com/title/tt0119125/Retrieved 2016-04-14
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, Stephen Dillane
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1.imdb.com/title/tt0119125/Retrieved 2016-04-14
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, Lia Williams
, Wolf Kahler
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Runtime: 103 min
Genre: drama film
, romance film
Country of origin: France
, United States
, United Kingdom
Original language: English

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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.

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Title: Firelight
Filming location: Pinewood Studios
Calvados
Firle
Color: color
FSK film rating: FSK 12
CNC film rating (France): no age restriction
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1.cnc.fr/professionnels/visas-et-classification/94452
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Distribution format: video on demand
Review score: 41%(February 12, 2025) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes · number of reviews/ratings: 17 critic review
5.4/10(October 6, 2021) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes
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1.Stated in Rotten Tomatoes“Firelight”Retrieved 2021-10-06
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