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The White Countess

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Drama: Classic & Period

22/08/2010

BBC Two - The White Countess

A countess (Natasha Richardson) saves a blind ex-diplomat (Ralph Fiennes) from an attack.

Merchant-Ivory period drama about the relationship between a blind former diplomat and the Russian countess who saves him from a violent attack on the streets of 1930s Shanghai.

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.

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