The white countess
2006
DVD
Set in 1930's Shanghai, a grief-stricken blind American diplomat shuts out the world and sets about creating the bar of his dreams with the help of a Japanese spy and a refugee Russian countess turned taxi dancer to support her young daughter and unappreciative in-laws. As civil war and the advancing Japanese army begins their invasion, the diplomat is forced to face his past and the reality of what's going on around him
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781404989320
- 1404989323
Uniform Title: The white countess (Motion Picture)
Edition: Widescreen.
Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- digital video surround
- videodisc
- DVD
- video file DVD
- polychrome
Target Audience Note: Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.
Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2005
- Special features: Behind the scenes featurette; making-of; audio commentary with director James Ivory and Natasha Richardson ; tribute to Ismail Merchant
- Costumes, John Bright ; editor, John David Allen ; music, Richard Robbins ; photography, Christopher Doyle
- Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, Madeleine Potter, John Wood
- DVD ; NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround ; high-definition ; 1.85:1 aspect ratio
- Some dialogue in Chinese or Russian with subtitles. Closed-captioned with English audio and optional English or French subtitles
Publisher or Distributor Number: 11718
Control Number: 3212201
UPC: 043396117181
Publisher: Culver City, California : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2006.Subjects:
- Blindness -- China -- Shanghai -- Drama.
- Diplomats -- United States -- Drama.
- Melodrama.
- Women refugees -- Drama.
Genre:
Other Authors:
- Fiennes, Ralph, actor.
- Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954- screenwriter.
- Ivory, James, director, commentator.
- Merchant Ivory Productions.
- Merchant, Ismail, producer.
- Redgrave, Lynn, 1943-2010, actor.
- Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937- actor.
- Richardson, Natasha, actor, commentator.
- Shanghai dian ying ji tuan gong si.
- Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
- Wood, John, 1930-2011, actor.