The White Countess (Original title)
Dates: 2005 (Copyright), 31 March 2006 (Release)Countries: United Kingdom, Germany, USA, People's Republic of ChinaDirected by: James Ivory
Synopsis: Romantic drama. Set in 1930s Shanghai, a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd - and sometimes illicit - jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family.
Genres: Drama, Romance
Dates: 2005 (Copyright), 31 March 2006 (Release)Countries: United Kingdom, Germany, USA, People's Republic of ChinaDirected by: James Ivory
Synopsis: Romantic drama. Set in 1930s Shanghai, a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd - and sometimes illicit - jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family.
Genres: Drama, Romance
Credits
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©/Author: White Countess Productions LTD, ©: Film and Entertainment VIP Medienfonds 3 GmbH & Co, Production Company: Merchant Ivory Productions Ltd, Co-produced with: Sony Pictures Classics, Co-produced with: Shanghai Film Group Corporation, VIP Medienfonds 3, In association with: Peter Elson, In association with: Global Cinema Group LLC, Rising Star, Supervised by: China Film Co-production Corporation, [Production Company]: Mikado Film Srl (Rome), [Production Company]: Shanghai Film Studio, TF1 Films Production, Executive Producer: Andre Morgan, Executive Producer for VIP Medienfonds 3: Andreas Schmid, Marcus Schöfer, Executive Producer - Shanghai Film Group: Wang Tianyun, Fu Wenxia, Executive Producer: Patrick Ko, Executive Producer for Century Hero: Wang Daqing, Produced by: Ismail Merchant, Producer for Shanghai Film Group: Ren Zhonglun, Producer for VIP Medienfonds 3: Andreas Grosch, Assistant Producer: Ben Spencer, Co-producer: Paul Bradley, Co-producer: Richard Hawley, Associate Producer: Rahila Bootwala, Associate Producer: Yue-Sai Kan, VIP Production Supervisor: Arie Bohrer, VIP Production Controller: Eva-Marie Neufahrt, VIP Production Co-ordinator: Kerstin Dyroff, Unit Production Manager: Aaron Shershow, Production Manager: Zhu Bin, Production Supervisor: Pierre Proner, Production Co-ordinator: Melissa Chung, Production Co-ordinator (UK Shoot): Simon Oxley, Location Production Co-ordinator: Lin Chuxiong, Production Accountant: Sunil Kirparam, Post-production Consultant: Xiaoming Zhang, Assistant Director (1st): George Every, Assistant Director (China 1st): William Cheng, Assistant Director (2nd): Ben Burt, Assistant Director (China 2nd): Wei Wei, Assistant Director (UK Shoot 1st): Gerry Gavigan, Script Supervisor: Catherine Allinson, Casting: Celestia Fox, Additional Casting: James Calleri, Casting Co-ordinator (SFS): Xu Wiguang, Wang Zuanqing, Written by: Kazuo Ishiguro, Director of Photography: Christopher Doyle, 2nd Unit Director of Photography: Lai Yiu Fai, UK Shoot Director of Photography: Tony Pierce-Roberts, Steadicam Operator: Li Qiang, Focus Puller (1st): Tsang Chun Chung, Focus Puller (2nd): Ho Kin-kwong, Focus Puller (UK Shoot): John Baillie, Gaffer: Ji Jianming, Gaffer (UK Shoot): Tommy Finch, Still Photographer: Tomoko Kikuchi, Special Effects Supervisor: David Fletcher, Special Effects Foreman: Tom Kittle, Special Effects (SFS): Zhu Weiyuan, Animation Produced by: Asterisk, Animation Producer: Richard O'Connor, [Animation] Creative Supervisor: Brian O'Connell, Animation Design Artist: Quan Han Dong, Animator: Doug Compton, Winnie Tom, Editor: John David Allen, 1st Assistant Editor: John Andrew Hill, Giles Gardner, Production Design: Andrew Sanders, Art Director: Yu Baiyang, Art Director: Steve Simmonds, Art Director: Chen Shaomian, Assistant Art Director: Zhu Liangde, Art Department Co-ordinator: Xiaosong Que, Set Decorator: Lan Bin, Set Decorator: Wang Shanqing, Set Decorator: Bian Qi, Draughtsman: Zhu Zengkang, Property Master: Colin Thurston, Yuan Lingen, Construction Manager: Hu Zhongquan, Construction Manager: Xue Menglong, Construction Manager (UK Shoot): Tony Harris, Associate Costume Designer: Sheena Napier, Costumes: John Bright, Wardrobe Mistress: Rosie Grant, Wardrobe Master: Richard Sale, Wardrobe Master (SFS): Zhang Cunzhong, Xiao Yingjuan, Hair/Make-up Designer: Carol Hemming, Head of Hair/Make-up: Martina Köhl, Make-up Associate: Mary-Anne Waite, Main Title Designer: Randy Balsmeyer, Opticals/End Titles: Cineric Inc, Additional Opticals: Big Film Design, Laboratory: Atlab, Negative Cutting Services: Vicki Mcritchie, Leo Bahas, [Atlab] Head of Production/Colourist: Olivier Fontenay, Music: Richard Robbins, Shanghai Jazz Music: John Huie, Solo Piano: Andrew Burashko, Percussion: Andy Morris, Roger Flock, Erhu: George Gao, Zheng: Yong Li Xie, Chinese Flutes: Chen Tao, Chinese Qui: Liu Li, Conductor: Jamie Hopkings, Orchestrator: Jamie Hopkings, Additional Arrangement/Orchestration: Martin Erskine, Music Editor: Tass Filipos, Scoring Mixer (Toronto): Cory Mandel, Historical Russian Music Consultant: David Bahanovich, Choreography: Karole Armitage, Sound Design: Robert Hein, Sound Engineer [Recordist]: Ludovic Hénault, Sound Recordist (UK Shoot): Robert Galvin, Boom Operator: Christophe Penchenat, Re-recording Mixer: Michael Barry, Sound Re-recorded at: Sound One, Dialogue Editor: David Wahnon, Dialogue Editor: Sylvia Menno, Sound Effects Design Editor: Coll Anderson, Sound Effects Editor: Glenfield Payne, ADR (Engineer): Bobby Johanson, ADR Editor: Brian Bowles, ADR Editor: Mike Wood, Foley Artist: Jay Peck, Foley Editor: Dave Flynch, In Remembrance and Gratitude: Paolo Mantini, Dolby Sound Consultant: James Nichols, Dialect Coach: Brooks Baldwin, Electronic Press Kit: Kate Barker, [Studio]: Shanghai Film Studio
Cast
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Ralph Fiennes (Todd Jackson), Natasha Richardson (Countess Sofia Belinskya), Vanessa Redgrave (Princess Vera Belinskya), Hiroyuki Sanada (Matsuda), Lynn Redgrave (Olga Belinskya), Allan Corduner (Samuel Feinstein), Ying Da (Kao), Madeleine Daly (Katya), Dan Herzberg (Frenchman), Jean-Pierre Lorit (Antoine Jacquier), Lee Pace (Crane), Madeleine Potter (Grushenka), Pierre Seznec (Russian singer), Luoyong Wang (Liu), John Wood (Prince Peter Belinskya), Aislín McGuckin (Maria), Dragan Micanovic (Ilya), Fan Young Fu (Fu), Lin Dong Fu (taxi dance hall manager), Terence Harvey (Walters), Paul Birchard, Jeff Harding (company director), Timur Engalychev, Lucy Sutton, Amir Maimon, Itay Eltahan (Feinstein children), Zong Xiao Jun (Chinese foreman), Alex Frolov, Kirill Khmelnitshi (pickpocket), Alexandar Richardson (young Ilya), Rachel Partington (young Sofia), Ramin Razaghi Sefati (stallholder), Nicole Utterbeck (American girl), Yao Ke Qin (General Ji Deng), Liu Jin Quan (General Shen Yinchu), Manouk Tideman (Christina), Matt Eaton (man reading paper), Charles Reston (jealous young man), Hong Lan Hou (Columbine), Kyle Rothstein (Harlequin), David Sutton (Punchinello), Tomas Hernell (Pierrot), Violaine Motte, Jimbo (Cat and Monkey dancer), Len Marchi (hospital doctor), Geoffrey Lieter (anti-Semite), Shu Chang (woman helping Jackson), Tetsuro Uragami (Japanese officer), Shu Zheng Hua (trumpet player)