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The White Countess

Duration: 2 hours, 5 minutes

First broadcast: Fri 10^th Apr 2015, 23:35 on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: Fri 25^th May 2018, 23:35 on BBC Two HD

Shanghai 1937. Sofia Belinkskya is an exiled countess who works in a nightclub to support her dead husband's aristocratic family and her daughter. After she meets Todd Jackson, a former US diplomat, who has been blinded in a recent accident, and has plans to open his own establishment he offers her a job. Show less

Contributors

Todd Jackson:: Ralph Fiennes
Countess Sofia Belinskya:: Natasha Richardson
Princess Vera Belinskya:: Vanessa Redgrave
Olga Belinskya:: Lynn Redgrave
Matsuda:: Hiroyuki Sanada
Director:: James Ivory
Grushenka:: Madeleine Potter
Katya:: Madeleine Daly
Prince Peter Belinsky:: John Wood
Samuel Feinstein:: Allan Corduner
Maria:: Aislin McGuckin
Kao:: Da Ying
Walters:: Terence Harvey
Crane:: Lee Pace
Ilya:: Dragan Micanovic
Liu:: Luoyong Wang
Composer:: Richard Robbins
Director of photography:: Christopher Doyle
Producer:: Ismail Merchant
Writer:: Kazuo Ishiguro

Genres

DramaClassic & Period

Formats

Films

Source: BBC Online

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