Plot
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Cast
William Hurt
Rochester
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Jane Eyre
Joan Plowright
Mrs. Fairfax
Anna Paquin
Young Jane Eyre
Geraldine Chaplin
Miss Scatcherd
Billie Whitelaw
Grace Poole
Maria Schneider
Bertha
Elle Macpherson
Blanche Ingram
Nic Knight
John Reed
Nicola Howard
Eliza Reed
Sasha Graff
Georgina Reed
Fiona Shaw
Mrs. Reed
Crew
Franco Zeffirelli
Screenplay
David Watkin
Director of Photography
Alessio Vlad
Original Music Composer
Claudio Capponi
Original Music Composer
Hugh Whitemore
Screenplay
Franco Zeffirelli
Director
Dyson Lovell
Producer
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