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The white countess / Merchant Ivory Productions ; in association with Global Cinema Group and Rising Star ; Sony Pictures Classics and Shanghai Film Group Corporation present a VIP Medienfonds 3 production ; screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro ; producer, Ismail Merchant ; directed by James Ivory.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diplomats--United States--Drama.
- Diplomats.
- Blindness--China--Shanghai--Drama.
- Blindness.
- Women refugees--Drama.
- Women refugees.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (136 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Sony Pictures Classics, 2005.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- In this final film by Oscar-nominated producer Ismail Merchant (1994, Best Picture, Remains of the Day), and Oscar-nominee James Ivory (1993, Best Director, Howard's End), 1930s Shanghai provides the backdrop for this exceptional drama starring two-time Oscar-nominee Ralph Fiennes (1997, Best Actor, The English Patient; 1994, Best Supporting Actor, Shindler's List) as Todd Jackson, a diplomat blinded in a bombing. An encounter with Sophia (Natasha Richardson, Maid in Manhattan), an exiled Countess employed as a bar girl, inspires him to open his own club, but only if she will work for him. Sophia's in-laws (two-time Oscar-nominee Lynn Redgrave) and Sarah (Academy Award winner Vanessa Redgrave), greedily pocket her income, but denounce her as a bad influence on her daughter. When Japanese troops invade the city, a mass exodus ensues! Alone and afraid, Sophia clings to the only hope left to her - finding her missing daughter!
- Participant:
- Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, Madeleine Potter, John Wood.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed January 05, 2017).
- Nominated 2005 Satellite Awards, Outstanding Sound (Mixing & Editing)
- Nominated 2005 Satellite Awards, Outstanding Costume Design
- OCLC:
- 971284050
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