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The White Countess

Merchant-Ivory period drama about the relationship between a blind former diplomat and the Russian countess who saves him from a violent attack on the streets of 1930s Shanghai.

Shanghai 1937. Sofia Belinkskya is an exiled countess who works in a nightclub to support her dead husband's aristocratic family and her daughter. After she meets Todd Jackson, a former US diplomat, who has been blinded in a recent accident, and has plans to open his own establishment he offers her a job.

2 hours, 5 minutes

Last on

Fri 25 May 2018 23:35

Music Played

  • The Jungle Band

    Mood Indigo

  • George Formby

    Chinese Laundry Blues

  • Louis Armstrong

    After You've Gone (Vocal)

Credits

Role Contributor
Todd Jackson Ralph Fiennes
Countess Sofia Belinskya Natasha Richardson
Princess Vera Belinskya Vanessa Redgrave
Olga Belinskya Lynn Redgrave
Matsuda Hiroyuki Sanada
Director James Ivory
Grushenka Madeleine Potter
Katya Madeleine Daly
Prince Peter Belinsky John Wood
Samuel Feinstein Allan Corduner
Maria Aislin McGuckin
Kao Da Ying
Walters Terence Harvey
Crane Lee Pace
Ilya Dragan Micanovic
Liu Luoyong Wang
Composer Richard Robbins
Director of photography Christopher Doyle
Producer Ismail Merchant
Writer Kazuo Ishiguro

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