Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- China, Germany, United States, United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia, a fallen member of the exiled Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create.
- shanghai
- china
- countess
- american abroad
- air raid
- nightclub owner
- taxi dancer
- american diplomat
- blind man
- russian woman
- 1930s
The bill
Ralph Fiennes
Todd Jackson
Natasha Richardson
Countess Sofia Belinskya
Hiroyuki Sanada
Matsuda
Lynn Redgrave
Olga Belinskya
- Vanessa Redgrave — Princess Vera Belinskya
- Madeleine Potter — Grushenka
- Madeleine Daly — Katya
- Allan Corduner — Samuel Feinstein
- John Wood — Prince Peter Belinskya
- Lee Pace — Crane
- Aislín McGuckin — Maria
- Ying Da — Kao
- Terence Harvey — Walters
- Dragan Mićanović — Ilya
- Wang Luoyong — Liu
- Directed
- James Ivory
- Written
- Kazuo Ishiguro
Production
- Rating
- 6.2 / 10 · 88 ratings
- Studio
- Shanghai Film Group, Merchant Ivory Productions, China Film Co-Production, Rising Star Productions, Global Cinema Group, VIP Medienfonds 3
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