The White Countess

Name: The White Countess
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Released: 2006-03-31
Duration: 2 h 15 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Natasha Richardson, Lynn Redgrave, Madeleine Potter, Madeleine Daly, John Wood

IMDb ID: tt0384686 · Year: 2006 · Rating: 6.5 (7,090 votes)

Genres: Drama · History · Romance

In 1930s Shanghai, a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd--and sometimes illicit--jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family.

IMDb Details

Content TypeMovieAlternate TitlesAustralia: The White Countess
Canada: The White Countess (English)
Germany: The White Countess
Denmark: The White Countess (DVD Title)
United Kingdom: The White Countess
Ireland: The White Countess (English)
India: The White Countess (English)
New Zealand: The White Countess (English)
Singapore: The White Countess (English)
United States: The White Countess
South Africa: The White Countess (English)
Japan: 上海の伯爵夫人
Japan: 上海の伯爵夫人 (Japanese)
Brazil: A Condessa Branca
Portugal: A Condessa Russa
Hungary: A fehér grófnő
Slovenia: Bela grofica
Poland: Biała hrabina
Sweden: Den ryska grevinnan
Israel: Ha'rozenet ha'levana (Hebrew)
Greece: I kontessa tis Shangais (transliterated title)
Spain: La comtessa russa (Catalan)
France: La comtesse blanche
Argentina: La condesa blanca
Spain: La condesa rusa
Italy: La contessa bianca
Estonia: Valge krahvinna
Finland: Valkoinen kreivitär
Greece: Η κοντέσσα της Σαγκάης
Russia: Белая графиня
Bulgaria: Бялата графиня (Bulgarian)
China: 伯爵夫人 (Mandarin)
Taiwan: 異國情緣
異國情緣Content RatingPG-13Release Date2006-03-31Runtime135 minutesMetascore60IMDb Popularity0User Reviews89Critic Reviews54Countries / RegionsUnited Kingdom
Germany
China
United StatesLanguagesEnglish
French
Mandarin
RussianKeywordsjazz
shanghai china
trumpeter
clarinetist
hong kong chinaFilming LocationsShanghai, ChinaProduction CompaniesMerchant Ivory Productions
Sony Pictures Classics
Shanghai Film GroupOfficial SitesMerchant Ivory Productions (United States) - http://www.merchantivory.com/film/thewhitecountess
Sony Classics (United States) - https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/thewhitecountessIMDb URLhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384686/Local Poster/d/file/imdb/03/tt0384686.jpgUpdated At2025-02-11T05:09:40

Directors

James Ivory

Writers

Kazuo Ishiguro

Full Cast & Crew

[Cast Group]
Actor: Natasha Richardson | Character: Countess Sofia Belinskya
Actor: Lynn Redgrave | Character: Olga Belinskya
Actor: Madeleine Potter | Character: Grushenka
Actor: Madeleine Daly | Character: Katya
Actor: John Wood | Character: Prince Peter Belinsky
Actor: Vanessa Redgrave | Character: Princess Vera Belinskya
Actor: Allan Corduner | Character: Samuel Feinstein
Actor: Timur Engalychev | Character: Feinstein Child
Actor: Lucy Sutton | Character: Feinstein Child
Actor: Amir Maimon | Character: Feinstein Child
Actor: Itay Eltahan | Character: Feinstein Child
Actor: Dan Herzberg | Character: Frenchman
Actor: Aislín McGuckin | Character: Maria
Actor: Dong Fu Lin | Character: Taxi Dance Hall Manager
Actor: Ralph Fiennes | Character: Todd Jackson
Actor: Da Ying | Character: Kao
Actor: Terence Harvey | Character: Walters
Actor: Jeff Harding | Character: Company Director
Actor: Paul Birchard | Character: Company Director
Actor: Lee Pace | Character: Crane
Actor: Hiroyuki Sanada | Character: Matsuda
Actor: Pierre Seznec | Character: Russian Singer
Actor: Dragan Micanovic | Character: Ilya
Actor: Xiaojun Zong | Character: Chinese Foreman
Actor: Alex Frolov | Character: Pickpocket
Actor: Kirill Khmelnitski | Character: Pickpocket
Actor: Luoyong Wang | Character: Liu
Actor: Alexandar Richardson | Character: Young Ilya
Actor: Rachel Partington | Character: Young Sofia
Actor: Ramin Razaghi Sefati | Character: Stallholder
Actor: Nicole Utterbeck | Character: American Girl
Actor: Young Fu Fan | Character: Fu
Actor: Ke Qin Yao | Character: General Ji Deng
Actor: Jin Quan Liu | Character: General Shen Yinchu
Actor: Manouk Tideman | Character: Christina
Actor: Matt Eaton | Character: Man Reading Paper
Actor: Maxim Reston | Character: Jealous Young Man
Actor: Hong Lan Hou | Character: Columbine
Actor: Kyle Rothstein | Character: Harlequin
Actor: David Sutton | Character: Punchinello
Actor: Tomas Hernell | Character: Pierrot
Actor: Violaine Motte | Character: Cat and Monkey Dancer
Actor: Jimbo | Character: Cat and Monkey Dancer
Actor: Jean-Pierre Lorit | Character: Antoine Jacquier
Actor: Len Marchi | Character: Hospital Doctor
Actor: Geoffrey Lieter | Character: Anti-Semite
Actor: Chang Shu | Character: Woman Helping Jackson
Actor: Tetsuro Uragami | Character: Japanese Officer
Actor: Zheng Hua Shu | Character: Trumpet Player
Actor: Nick Barnes | Character: English Aristocrat
Actor: Yue Ting Cheng | Character: Chinese Soldier
Actor: Hollie Johnson | Character: Lead Secretary
Actor: Alexia Kalteis | Character: Courtesan
Actor: Charlotte Mikkelborg | Character: Extra
Actor: Richard Trombly | Character: Feinstein's Neighbor
Actor: Garth Tuckett | Character: Extra

[Directors Group]
Name: James Ivory | Role: Director

[Writers Group]
Name: Kazuo Ishiguro | Role: Writer

[Producers Group]
Name: Rahila Bootwala | Role: Producer
Name: Paul Bradley | Role: Producer
Name: Wenxia Fu | Role: Producer
Name: Andreas Grosch | Role: Producer
Name: Richard Hawley | Role: Producer
Name: Yue-Sai Kan | Role: Producer
Name: Patrick Ko | Role: Producer
Name: Ismail Merchant | Role: Producer
Name: Andre Morgan | Role: Producer
Name: Simon Oxley | Role: Producer
Name: Zhonglun Ren | Role: Producer
Name: Andreas Schmid | Role: Producer
Name: Marcus Schöfer | Role: Producer
Name: Ben Spencer | Role: Producer
Name: Daqing Wang | Role: Producer
Name: Tianyan Wang | Role: Producer
Name: Kai Wong | Role: Producer

[Music Group]
Name: Richard Robbins | Role: Composer

[Cinematography Group]
Name: Christopher Doyle | Role: Cinematographer

[Editing Group]
Name: John David Allen | Role: Editor

[Casting Group]
Name: Celestia Fox | Role: Casting Director

[Production Design Group]
Name: Andrew Sanders | Role: Production Designer

[Art Direction Group]
Name: Chen Shaomian | Role: Art Director
Name: Steve Simmonds | Role: Art Director
Name: Baiyang Yu | Role: Art Director

[Set Decoration Group]
Name: Bin Lan | Role: Set Decorator
Name: Bian Qi | Role: Set Decorator
Name: Shanqing Wang | Role: Set Decorator

[Costume Design Group]
Name: John Bright | Role: Costume Designer

[Makeup Department]
Name: Carol Hemming | Role: Makeup Department
Name: Martina Kohl | Role: Makeup Department
Name: Claudia Moseley | Role: Makeup Department
Name: Mary-Anne Waite | Role: Makeup Department
Name: Christie Wang | Role: Makeup Department

[Production Management]
Name: Zhu Bin | Role: Production Manager
Name: Arie Bohrer | Role: Production Manager
Name: Pierre Proner | Role: Production Manager
Name: Aaron Shershow | Role: Production Manager
Name: April YeFang | Role: Production Manager

[Assistant Directors]
Name: Ben Burt | Role: Second Unit or Assistant Director
Name: William Cheng | Role: Second Unit or Assistant Director
Name: George Every | Role: Second Unit or Assistant Director
Name: Gerry Gavigan | Role: Second Unit or Assistant Director
Name: Da Hong | Role: Second Unit or Assistant Director
Name: Eliot Mathews | Role: Second Unit or Assistant Director
Name: Maxim Reston | Role: Second Unit or Assistant Director
Name: Wei Wei | Role: Second Unit or Assistant Director

[Art Department]
Name: Shu Chou | Role: Art Department
Name: Sadiya Chowhan | Role: Art Department
Name: Tony Harris | Role: Art Department
Name: Zhongquan Hu | Role: Art Department
Name: Lin Qingwei | Role: Art Department
Name: Xiaosong Que | Role: Art Department
Name: Yibin Shen | Role: Art Department
Name: Han Shonglai | Role: Art Department
Name: Leipei Tao | Role: Art Department
Name: Shicheng Wang | Role: Art Department
Name: Menglong Xue | Role: Art Department
Name: Zhu Zengkang | Role: Art Department
Name: Liangde Zhu | Role: Art Department

[Sound Department]
Name: Coll Anderson | Role: Sound Department
Name: Michael Barry | Role: Sound Department
Name: Brian Bowles | Role: Sound Department
Name: Martin Czembor | Role: Sound Department
Name: Dave Flynch | Role: Sound Department
Name: Robert Galvin | Role: Sound Department
Name: Robert Hein | Role: Sound Department
Name: Ludovic Hénault | Role: Sound Department
Name: Bobby Johanson | Role: Sound Department
Name: Richard King | Role: Sound Department
Name: Sylvia Menno | Role: Sound Department
Name: James P. Nichols | Role: Sound Department
Name: Glenfield Payne | Role: Sound Department
Name: Jay Peck | Role: Sound Department
Name: Christophe Penchenat | Role: Sound Department
Name: Sarah Jean Porter | Role: Sound Department
Name: Li Qian | Role: Sound Department
Name: David Wahnon | Role: Sound Department
Name: Mike Wood | Role: Sound Department
Name: Ryan Collison | Role: Sound Department
Name: Mark DeSimone | Role: Sound Department
Name: Peter Gleaves | Role: Sound Department
Name: Margot Massie | Role: Sound Department
Name: Dan Murphy | Role: Sound Department
Name: Daniel Ward | Role: Sound Department

[Special Effects]
Name: David Fletcher | Role: Special Effects
Name: Thomas Kittle | Role: Special Effects
Name: Rick Sun | Role: Special Effects
Name: Weiyuan Zhu | Role: Special Effects

[Visual Effects]
Name: Doug Compton | Role: Visual Effects
Name: J. John Corbett | Role: Visual Effects
Name: Quan Han Dong | Role: Visual Effects
Name: Brian O'Connell | Role: Visual Effects
Name: Richard O'Connor | Role: Visual Effects
Name: Janos Pilenyi | Role: Visual Effects
Name: Ariel Enriquez Saulog | Role: Visual Effects
Name: Winnie Tom | Role: Visual Effects
Name: Jamie Hediger | Role: Visual Effects

[Camera and Electrical Department]
Name: John Bailie | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Qian Defeng | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Tommy Finch | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Kin-Kwong Ho | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Po Wing Ho | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Jianmin Ji | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Tomoko Kikuchi | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Yiu-Fai Lai | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Qiang Li | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Tony Pierce-Roberts | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Rocky Tsang | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Jiandong Wen | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Dejun Yang | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Jiandong Yu | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Kaiyou Zhao | Role: Camera and Electrical Department

[Casting Department]
Name: James Calleri | Role: Casting Department
Name: Matt Eaton | Role: Casting Department
Name: Patrick Kelly | Role: Casting Department
Name: Jennifer Wang | Role: Casting Department
Name: Zuanqing Wang | Role: Casting Department
Name: Xu Wiguang | Role: Casting Department
Name: Alex Johnson | Role: Casting Department

[Costume and Wardrobe Department]
Name: Rosie Grant | Role: Costume Department
Name: Antonny Luo | Role: Costume Department
Name: Sheena Napier | Role: Costume Department
Name: Philip O'Connor | Role: Costume Department
Name: Richard Sale | Role: Costume Department
Name: Yingjuan Xiao | Role: Costume Department
Name: Meng Xie | Role: Costume Department
Name: Cunzhong Zhang | Role: Costume Department

[Editorial Department]
Name: Leo Bahas | Role: Editorial Department
Name: James Cohen | Role: Editorial Department
Name: Giles Gardner | Role: Editorial Department
Name: John Hill | Role: Editorial Department
Name: Vicki McRitchie | Role: Editorial Department
Name: Vijay Sekhon | Role: Editorial Department
Name: Xiaoming Zhang | Role: Editorial Department

[Location Management]
Name: Lin Chuxiong | Role: Location Management
Name: Su Yongwei | Role: Location Management

[Music Department]
Name: David Bahanovich | Role: Music Department
Name: Andrew Burashko | Role: Music Department
Name: Martin Erskine | Role: Music Department
Name: Tass Filipos | Role: Music Department
Name: Roger Flock | Role: Music Department
Name: George Gao | Role: Music Department
Name: Richard Hawley | Role: Music Department
Name: Jamie Hopkings | Role: Music Department
Name: John Huie | Role: Music Department
Name: Lui Li | Role: Music Department
Name: Cory Mandel | Role: Music Department
Name: Andy Morris | Role: Music Department
Name: Morgan Neville | Role: Music Department
Name: Mark Skazinetsky | Role: Music Department
Name: Chen Tao | Role: Music Department
Name: Yong Li Xie | Role: Music Department
Name: Ron Korb | Role: Music Department

[Production Department]
Name: Melissa Chung | Role: Production Department
Name: Lanny Dong | Role: Production Department
Name: Kerstin Dyroff | Role: Production Department
Name: David Kempski | Role: Production Department
Name: Lisa Li | Role: Production Department
Name: Simon Oxley | Role: Production Department
Name: Young Yongling | Role: Production Department
Name: Minhua Yu | Role: Production Department
Name: Zhi Ying Dong | Role: Production Department
Name: Ayca Sadikoglu | Role: Production Department

[Script and Continuity Department]
Name: Catherine Allinson | Role: Script and Continuity Department

[Transportation Department]
Name: Zhongshu Tao | Role: Transportation Department
Name: Zhiqiang Yuan | Role: Transportation Department

[Additional Crew]
Name: Karole Armitage | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Brooks Baldwin | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Randall Balsmeyer | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Kate Barker-Froyland | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Susan H. Bodine | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Michael Chai | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Zoe Chen | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Kris Chung | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Olivier Fontenay | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Maife Gil | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Florian Harms | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Jin He | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Sunil Kirparam | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Leonora Lonsdale | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Eva Neufahrt | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Berit Norrenberg | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Claudia Sendlbeck-Schickor | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Armen Stevens | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Ingrid Sun | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Colin Thurston | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Christie Wang | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Minnie Wang | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Lingen Yuan | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Marilyn Zhuang | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Miranda Zhuang | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Josef Brandmaier | Role: Additional Crew
Name: John Dowdell | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Kelly Messias | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Darren O'Connell | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Geoffrey Stott | Role: Additional Crew

[Thanks]
Name: Chris Humphrey | Role: Thanks
Name: Paolo Mantini | Role: Thanks
Name: Richard Soames | Role: Thanks
Name: David Tang | Role: Thanks

Trailers

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Release Schedule

United States: October 30, 2005 (Savannah Film and Video Festival)
United States: November 4, 2005 (Two River Film Festival, premiere)
United States: December 21, 2005 (limited)
Italy: February 10, 2006
Portugal: March 16, 2006
Greece: March 23, 2006 (limited)
United Kingdom: March 31, 2006
Ireland: March 31, 2006
Finland: April 7, 2006
Russia: April 13, 2006
Belgium: May 3, 2006
Israel: May 11, 2006
China: June 2006 (opening film, Shanghai International Film Festival)
Spain: June 9, 2006
Mexico: June 9, 2006
Sweden: June 24, 2006
Argentina: August 17, 2006
Iceland: September 25, 2006 (DVD premiere)
Hungary: October 10, 2006 (DVD premiere)
South Africa: October 16, 2006 (DVD premiere)
Japan: October 28, 2006
Germany: December 5, 2006 (DVD premiere)
France: February 7, 2007 (DVD premiere)

Awards

Box Office