About a French army officer during the Napoleonic wars, who escapes a British prison to
track down his family and, in the process, becomes infatuated with a woman, charms her guardian aunt and helps a bumbling British officer brush up on his seduction skills. But
when his enemies close in, he must use all his ingenuity to avoid recapture

C a s t

Jean Marc Barr as Viscount Jacques St Ives
Miranda Richardson as Miss Susan Emily Gilchrist
Anna Friel as Flora
Richard E Grant as Major Farquar Bollingbrooke Chevening
Michael Gough as Count
Cecile Pallas as Mathilde
Jason Isaacs as Alain
Tim Dutton as Francois
Vernon Dobtcheff as Bonnefoy
Patrice Melennec as Couperin
Eileen McCloskey as Prostitute

Production Credits

Producers Jonathan Cavendish & James Mitchell
Director Harry Hook
Screenwriter Allan Cubitt based on the unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson