The White Countess (2005)

Directors

James Ivory

Cast

Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, John Woodvine, Madeleine Potter, Allan Corduner

The story

Having escaped the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Countess Sofia Belinskaya is working as a taxi dancer and prostitute in a seedy Shanghai bar in 1936. Sofia is the sole support of her family of aristocratic White Russian émigrés, including her daughter Katya, her mother-in-law Olga, her sister-in-law Grushenka, and an aunt and uncle by marriage, Princess Vera and Prince Peter. Despite living off of it, Sofia's relatives scorn her for her work by treating her like an unclean woman, with the exception of Katya, who defends her mother.

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