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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.
Last on
Fri 25 May 201823:35
Music Played
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The Jungle Band
Mood Indigo
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George Formby
Chinese Laundry Blues
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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 Day |
| 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 |
