The White Countess (2005) - Movie Details

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Release Date:	December 21, 2005 (LA/NY)
On DVD:	May 16, 2006
Genre:	Drama
Director:	James Ivory
Writer:	Kazuo Ishiguro
Cast:	Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, John Wood, Madeleine Potter, Hiroyuki Sanada
Studio:	Sony Pictures Classics
Official site:	sonyclassics.com/comingsoon.php?filmid=87&page=1
Running Time:	138 minutes
MPAA Rating:	Rated PG-13 for some violent images and thematic elements

Set in Shanghai in the late 1930s, this is the story of the relationship between a disillusioned former US diplomat and a refugee White Russian countess reduced to a sordid life in the city's bars.

Todd Jackson (mid-40s), once an American diplomat filled with idealism, has lost his sight several years earlier, and is now languishing in Shanghai's grand hotels and elite gentlemen's clubs, a burnt-out case, He has become bitterly disillusioned by realpolitik and the...

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