The White Countess

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The White Countess
The White Countess Promotional Movie Poster
Directed by	James Ivory
Produced by	Ismail Merchant
Written by	Kazuo Ishiguro
Starring	Ralph Fiennes Natasha Richardson Vanessa Redgrave Hiroyuki Sanada Lynn Redgrave Allan Corduner Madeleine Potter
Music by	Richard Robbins
Cinematography	Christopher Doyle
Editing by	John David Allen
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Classics
Release date(s)	21 December 2005
Running time	135 min
Country	UK, China
Language	English
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The White Countess is a 2005 Merchant/Ivory film set in Shanghai in the late 1930s. James Ivory directed the movie. The screenplay was written by the acclaimed novelist, Kazuo Ishiguro.

1 Cast
2 Plot
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Cast

Ralph Fiennes as Jackson
Natasha Richardson as Sofia
Vanessa Redgrave as Aunt Sara
Lynn Redgrave as Olga
Hiroyuki Sanada as Matsuda
Allan Corduner as Samuel Feinstein
Madeleine Potter as Greshenka
John Wood as Uncle Peter
Madeleine Daly as Katya
Dan Herzberg as Frenchman
Jean-Pierre Lorit as Antoine Jacquier
Lee Pace as Tom Crane

[edit] Plot

Shanghai. 1936. Crossroads of the world and into this city of political intrigue comes Sofia, a Russian countess who, with the remains of her family, has, like other "White Emigres", been left stateless by the Revolution. Forced by her reduced circumstances to support herself and her family as a bar-girl and taxi dancer, Sofia forms a relationship with Jackson, a blind former American diplomat who opens an elegant bar which he names "The White Countess". Their curious relationship matures but they are caught up in the fall of the city to the Japanese invaders.