Release Date
December 21, 2005 (LA/NY)
DVD Release Date
May 16, 2006 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
James Ivory
Writer
Kazuo Ishiguro
Cast
Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, John Wood, Madeleine Potter, Hiroyuki Sanada
Studio
Running Time
138 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated PG-13 for some violent images and thematic elements
What is The White Countess about?
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... Full synopsis »
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