White Countess (2005)

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PG-13 | 2 hr 18 mins | Drama, Period, Foreign | Released: 12/21/2005 |Box Office Total: $1.6M

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Synopsis:

Set in Shanghai in the late 1930s, the story of the relationship between a disillusioned former US diplomat and a refugee White Russian countess reduced to a sordid life in the city's bars. Todd Jackson (mid-40s), once an American diplomat filled with idealism, has lost his sight several years earlier, and is now languishing in Shanghai's grand hotels and elite gentlemen's clubs, a burnt-out case, He has become bitterly disillusioned by realpolitik and the seemingly unavoidable nature of war and conflict. He is, moreover, deeply bereaved by the deaths of his wife and children--victims of violent events in the political turmoil of 1930s China that also robbed him of his sight.

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Full Cast & Crew

Theatrical Release
12/21/2005

Director	Credit
James Ivory	Director
Cast	Credit
Vanessa Redgrave	Princess Vera Belinskya
Natasha Richardson	Countess Sofia Belinskya
Ralph Fiennes	Jackson
Lynn Redgrave	Olga Belinskya
John Wood	Prince Peter Belinsky
Madeleine Potter	Greshenka
Madeleine Daly	Katya
Hiroyuki Sanada	Matsuda
Allan Corduner	Samuel Feinstein
Xing Da	- Cast
Dan Herzberg	Frenchman
Lee Pace	Crane
Timur Engalychev	Feinstein Child
Lucy Sutton	Feinstein Child
Amir Maimon	Feinstein Child
Itay Eltahan	Feinstein Child
Aislin McGuckin	Maria
Lin Dong Fu	Taxi Dance Hall Manager
Ying Da	Kao
Terence Harvey	Walters
Jeff Harding	Company Director
Paul Birchard	Company Director
Pierre Seznec	Russian Singer
Dragan Micanovic	Ilya
Zong Xiao Jun	Chinese Foreman
Alex Frolov	Pickpocket
Kirill Khmelnitshi	Pickpocket
Luoyong Wang	Liu
Alexandar Richardson	Young Ilya
Rachel Partington	Young Sofia
Ramin Razaghi Sefati	Stallholder
Nicole Utterbeck	American Girl
Fan Young Fu	Fu
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	Cat and Monkey Dancer
Jimbo	Cat and Monkey Dancer
Jean-Pierre Lorit	Antoine Jacquier
Len Marchi	Hospital Doctor
Geoffrey Lieter	Anti-Semite
Shu Chang	Woman Helping Jackson
Tetsuro Uragami	Japanese Officer
Shu Zheng Hua	Trumpet Player
Production Credits	Credit
ben spencer	Assistant Producer
Rahila Bootwala	Associate Producer
Andre Morgan	Executive Producer
Richard Hawley	Co-Producer
Ismail Merchant	Producer
Paul Bradley	Co-Producer
Andreas Schmid	Executive Producer
Ren Zhonglun	Producer
Yue-Sai Kan	Associate Producer
Marcus Schofer	Executive Producer
Andreas Grosch	Producer
Wang Tianyun	Executive Producer
Fu Wenxia	Executive Producer
Patrick Ko	Executive Producer
Wang Daqing	Executive Producer
Production Companies	Credit
Merchant Ivory Films	Production Company
TF-1	Production Company
Shanghai Film Corporation	Production Company
VIP Medienfonds Film & Entertainment (VIP Media Funds)	Production Company
Distribution Companies	Credit
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment	Domestic Video Distributor
Global Cinema Group	Foreign Distribution Rights
Mongrel Media	Foreign Theatrical Distributor (Canada)
SPC	Domestic Theatrical Distributor
SPC	Foreign Theatrical Distributor
Locations
Rome, Italy (studio interiors)
Hweilai Studios, Shanghai, China
Writer	Credit
Kazuo Ishiguro	Screenplay
Accounting	Credit
Sunil Kirparam	Production Accountant
Michael Chai	Assistant Accountant
Eva-Marie Neufahrt	Production Accountant - Production Controller
Art Department	Credit
Andrew Sanders	Production Designer
Yu Bai Yang	Art Director
Lan Bin	Set Decorator
Shen Yibin	Painter - Set Painter
Zhu Liangde	Assistant Art Director
Xiaosong Que	Art Department Coordinator
Zhou Shuhao	Art Department - Art Department Translator
Zhu Zengkang	Illustrator - Draughtsman
Steve Simmonds	Art Director
Wang Shanqing	Set Decorator
Chen Shaomian	Art Director
Bian Qi	Set Decorator
Casting	Credit
Celestia Fox	Casting
Patrick Kelly	Casting Assistant
Jennifer Wang	Extras Casting Assistant
James Calleri	Casting
Matt Eaton	Extras Casting Assistant
Xu Wiguang	Casting - Casting Coordinator
Wang Zuanqing	Casting - Casting Coordinator
Film Camera	Credit
Tsang Chun Chung	Focus Puller
Li Qiang	Steadicam Operator
Christopher Doyle	Director of Photography
Olivier Fontenay	Colorist - Head of Production/Colorist (Australian)
Tomoko Kikuchi	Photography - Still Photographer
Ho Kin Kwong	Focus Puller
Lai Yiu Fai	Director of Photography
John Bailie	Focus Puller (UK)
Tony Pierce-Roberts	Director of Photography (UK)
Film Sales Financing	Credit
Mikado Films	Co-Financier
Nordisk Film/TF1 International	Foreign Distribution Sales
Legal	Credit
Berit Wetzel	Legal Counsel - Legal Advisor
Florian Harms	Legal Counsel - Legal Advisor
Music	Credit
Leo Tolstoy	Song
Richard Robbins	Music
Imogen Cooper	Song Performer
Tass Filipos	Music Editor
James Hopkings	Orchestrations - Orchestrator/Conductor
Cory Mandel	Score Mixing - Scoring Mixer (Toronto)
Aleksandr Vertinsky	Song
Aleksandr Vertinsky	Song Performer
Martin Erskine	Orchestrations - Arrangement/Orchestrator
David Bahanovich	Music - Historical Russian Music Consultant
Graham Preskett	Song
Graham Preskett	Song Performer
Mark Skazinetsky	Music - Concertmaster
John Huie	Song
John Huie	Song Performer
Andrew Burashko	Music - Solo Piano
The White Countess Band	Song Performer
Vincent Rose	Song
Andy Morris	Music - Percussion
Pierre Seznec	Song Performer
Roger Flock	Music - Percussion
Al Jolson	Song
B G DeSylva	Song
'Coco' Zhou Ke	Song Performer
George Gao	Music - Erhu
Min Yao	Song
Chow Hsuan	Song Performer
Yong Li Xie	Music - Zheng
Chen Tao	Music - Chinese Flute
Lian Sun Chen	Song
Yao Lee	Song Performer
Ching Kwang Lee	Song
Duke Ellington Orchestra	Song Performer
Liu Li	Music - Chinese Qui
Wei Zhang	Song
Chang Loo	Song Performer
Norman Evans	Song Performer
Stephen Foster	Song
Pedja Muzijevic	Song Performer
Lin Bei	Song
Xue An Liu	Song
Robb Wilton	Song Performer
Chuen Ng	Song
George Formby	Song Performer
Ge Xin Chen	Song
Madeleine Potter	Song Performer
Rebecca Tu	Song Performer
Harry Brooks	Song
Henry Creamer	Song Performer
Andy Razaf	Song
Thomas Waller	Song
Louis Armstrong	Song Performer
Duke Ellington	Song
Irving Mills	Song
Barney Bigard	Song
Di Yi Chen	Song
Che His Yen	Song
Norman Evans	Song
Robb Wilton	Song
Clifford Burwell	Song
Mitchell Parish	Song
Jack Cottrell	Song
Harry Warren	Song
Al Dubin	Song
Xiao Zhong Yang	Song
Turner Layton	Song
William S Gilbert	Song
Arthur Sullivan	Song
Production Management	Credit
Su Yongwei	Assistant Location Manager
Melissa Chung	Production Coordinator
George Every	Assistant Director
Zhu Bin	Production Manager
Catherine Allinson	Script Supervisor
Lanny Dong	Assistant Production Coordinator
Aaron Shershow	Unit Production Manager
Pierre Proner	Production Supervisor
William Cheng	Assistant Director
Arie Bohrer	Production Supervisor
Lin Chuxiong	Production Coordinator - Location Production Coordinator
Ben Burt	Assistant Director
Kerstin Dyroff	Production Coordinator
Simon Oxley	Production Coordinator (UK)
Wei Wei	Assistant Director
Eliot Mathews	Assistant Director
Da Hong	Assistant Director - Crowd Assistant Director
Gerry Gavigan	Assistant Director (UK)
Sound	Credit
Michael Barry	Rerecording Mixer
David Wahnon	ADR/Dialogue Editor - Dialogue Editor
James Nichols	Sound - Dolby Sound Consultant
Glenfield Payne	Sound Effects Editor
Jay Peck	Foley Artist
Christopher Penchenat	Boom Operator
Richard King	Assistant Sound Editor
Dave Flynch	Foley Editor
Robert Hein	Sound Design
Brian Bowles	ADR Editor
Coll Anderson	Sound Editor - Sound Effects Design Editor
Bobby Johanson	ADR - ADR Engineer
Robert Galvin	Sound Recordist (UK)
Ludovic Henault	Sound Engineer
Sylvia Menno	ADR/Dialogue Editor - Dialogue Editor
Martin Czembor	Rerecording Mixer
Mike Wood	ADR Editor
Sarah Porter	Sound Editor - Apprentice Sound Editor
Visual Effects	Credit
Tom Kittle	Special Effects Foreman
Zhu Weiyuan	Special Effects
Brian O'Connell	Visual Effects Supervisor - Creative Supervisor
Ariel Enriquez Saulog	Digital Effects - Digital Supervisor
Janos O. Pilenyi	Effects Supervisor - Optical Supervisor
Rich O'Connor	Animator - Animation Producer
Randy Balsmeyer	Titles - Main Title Designer
David Fletcher	Special Effects Supervisor
J John Corbett	Digital Effects Artist - Digital Artist
Quan Han Dong	Animator - Animation Design Artist
Doug Compton	Animator
Winnie Tom	Animator
Wardrobe Hair Makeup	Credit
John M Bright	Costumes
Carol Hemming	Makeup Designer - Hair/Make-Up Designer
Rosie Grant	Wardrobe - Wardrobe Mistress
Sheena Napier	Assistant Costume Designer
Antonny Luo	Costume Department - Costume Department Translator
Mary Anne Waite	Makeup - Make-Up Associate
Martina Kohl	Hair - Head of Hair/Make-Up
Philip O'Connor	Costumes - Costume Assistant
Richard Sale	Wardrobe - Wardrobe Master
Christie Wang	Makeup - Make-Up/Translator
Zhang Cunzhong	Wardrobe - Wardrobe Master
Xiao Yingjuan	Wardrobe - Wardrobe Master

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