The White Countess
The last movie from the team of Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in 1930s Shanghai, "The White Countess" is both Sofia (Natasha Richardson), a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat named Jackson (Ralph Fiennes), who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create.
Drama, History, Family, Romance
Sony Pictures Classics, Shanghai Film Group, Merchant Ivory Productions
Ralph Fiennes as Todd Jackson, Natasha Richardson as Countess Sofia Belinskya, Hiroyuki Sanada as Matsuda, Lynn Redgrave as Olga Belinskya, Vanessa Redgrave as Princess Vera Belinskya, Madeleine Potter as Grushenka, Madeleine Daly as Katya, Allan Corduner as Samuel Feinstein, John Wood as Prince Peter Belinskya, Lee Pace as Crane, Aislín McGuckin as Maria, Ying Da as Kao, Terence Harvey as Walters, Dragan Mićanović as Ilya, Luoyong Wang as Liu, Young Fu Fan as Fu, Manouk Tideman as Christina, Hong Lan Hou as Columbine, Kyle Rothstein as Harlequin, Jean-Pierre Lorit as Antoine Jacquier