Žanr: Drama
Format: DVD
Poreklo: Strani

The White Countess

The White Countess is a 2005 drama film directed by James Ivory. The screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro focuses on a disparate group of displaced persons attempting to survive in Shanghai in the late 1930s.

Plot

Having escaped the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Countess Sofia Belinskya is working as a taxi dancer in a seedy Shanghai bar to support her family of White émigrés, including her daughter Katya, her mother-in-law Olga, her sister-in-law Grushenka, and an aunt and uncle by marriage, Princess Vera and Prince Peter. Despite the fact employment is scarce and her meager income is the family`s only source of revenue, Sofia`s once-aristocratic relatives scorn her for her choice of profession and insist she keep it a secret from her child.

Sofia eventually meets Todd Jackson, a former official of the U.S. State Department who recently lost his wife and children in separate terrorist bombings. The bombing that killed his child also left him blind. Using his substantial winnings from a well-placed bet at the racetrack, he opens an elegant nightclub catering to the cosmopolitan upper class and invites Sofia to work for him as his primary hostess, an offer she accepts, and in honor of her he calls the club `The White Countess.` As time passes, the two begin to fall in love, but neither acts on their feelings until the political climate around them slowly disintegrates, leading to the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War and a mass exodus from the besieged city.
Cast

Ralph Fiennes as Todd Jackson
Natasha Richardson as Countess Sofia Belinskya
Hiroyuki Sanada as Mr. Matsuda
Lynn Redgrave as Olga Belinskya
Vanessa Redgrave as Princess Vera Belinskya
Madeleine Potter as Grushenka
Madeleine Daly as Katya
Lee Pace as Crane
Allan Corduner as Samuel Feinstein
John Wood as Prince Peter Belinski

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
Edited by John David Allen
Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics
Release dates December 21, 2005
Running time 135 minutes
Country United Kingdom, United States, China
Language English
Subtitles Greek

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