The White Countess
2005 | 135m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | James Ivory |
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| Writer: | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Staring: |
| In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia, a fallen member of the exiled Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create. | |
| Release Date: | Oct 30, 2005 |
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| Director: | James Ivory |
| Writer: | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Genres: | War, Drama, Romance |
| Keywords | shanghai, china, countess, american abroad, air raid, nightclub owner, taxi dancer, american diplomat, blind man, russian woman, 1930s, living in exile, nightclub hostess, japanese invasion of china, pre world war ii, russian aristocracy, mass exodus |
| Production Companies | Sony Pictures Classics, VIP Medienfonds 3, Rising Star Productions, China Film Co-Production Corp., Merchant Ivory Productions, Shanghai Film Group, Global Cinema, Global Cinema Group |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $4,092,682
Budget: $16,000,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 04, 2026 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Ralph Fiennes | Todd Jackson |
| Natasha Richardson | Countess Sofia Belinskya |
| Hiroyuki Sanada | Matsuda |
| Lynn Redgrave | Olga Belinskya |
| Vanessa Redgrave | Princess Vera Belinskya |
| Madeleine Potter | Grushenka |
| Madeleine Daly | Katya |
| Allan Corduner | Samuel Feinstein |
| John Wood | Prince Peter Belinskya |
| Lee Pace | Crane |
| Aislín McGuckin | Maria |
| Ying Da | Kao |
| Terence Harvey | Walters |
| Dragan Mićanović | Ilya |
| Wang Luoyong | Liu |
| Young Fu Fan | Fu |
| Manouk Tideman | Christina |
| Hong Lan Hou | Columbine |
| Kyle Rothstein | Harlequin |
| Jean-Pierre Lorit | Antoine Jacquier |
| Timur Engalychev | Feinstein Child |
| Lucy Sutton | Feinstein Child |
| Amir Maimon | Feinstein Child |
| Itay Eltahan | Feinstein Child |
| Dan Herzberg | Frenchman |
| Jeff Harding | Company Director |
| Paul Birchard | Company Director |
| Pierre Seznec | Russian Singer |
| Zong Xiaojun | Chinese Foreman |
| Alexey Frolov | Pickpocket |
| Kirill Khmelnitski | Pickpocket |
| Alexandar Richardson | Young Ilya |
| Rachel Partington | Young Sofia |
| Ramin Razaghi Sefati | Stallholder |
| Nicole Utterbeck | American Girl |
| Ke Qin Yao | General Ji Deng |
| Jin Quan Liu | General Shen Yinchu |
| Matt Eaton | Man Reading Paper |
| Tomas Hernell | Pierrot |
| David Sutton | Punchinello |
| Violaine Motte | Cat and Monkey Dancer |
| Jimbo | Cat and Monkey Dancer |
| Len Marchi | Hospital Doctor |
| Geoffrey Lieter | Anti-Semite |
| Shu Chang | Woman Helping Jackson |
| Tetsuro Uragami | Japanese Officer |
| Zheng Hua Shu | Trumpet Player |
| Hollie Johnson | Lead Secretary (uncredited) |
| Charles Reston | Jealous Young Man |
| Lin Dongfu | Taxi Dance Hall Manager (as Lin Dong Fu) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Kazuo Ishiguro | Writer |
| Celestia Fox | Casting |
| Chen Shaomian | Art Direction |
| Sylvia Menno | Dialogue Editor |
| Bian Qi | Set Decoration |
| George Every | First Assistant Director |
| James Ivory | Director |
| Shanqing Wang | Set Decoration |
| Andrew Sanders | Production Design |
| Steve Simmonds | Art Direction |
| Carol Hemming | Makeup Designer, Hair Designer |
| Jamie Hopkings | Orchestrator |
| John Bright | Costume Design |
| Martina Kohl | Hair Department Head, Makeup Department Head |
| Brian Bowles | ADR Editor |
| Robert Hein | Sound Designer |
| Yu Baiyang | Art Direction |
| John David Allen | Editor |
| Colin Thurston | Property Master |
| Brooks Baldwin | Dialect Coach |
| Jianmin Ji | Gaffer |
| Christophe Penchenat | Boom Operator |
| Xiaosong Que | Art Department Coordinator |
| Glenfield Payne | Sound Effects Editor |
| Tomoko Kikuchi | Still Photographer |
| Tass Filipos | Music Editor |
| Melissa Chung | Production Coordinator |
| Coll Anderson | Sound Effects Editor |
| Bin Lan | Set Decoration |
| Lingen Yuan | Property Master |
| Ho Po-Wing | Dolly Grip |
| David Wahnon | Dialogue Editor |
| Catherine Allinson | Script Supervisor |
| Mike Wood | ADR Editor |
| David Fletcher | Special Effects Supervisor |
| Christie Wang | Translator |
| Karole Armitage | Choreographer |
| Dave Flynch | Foley Editor |
| Randall Balsmeyer | Title Designer |
| Richard Sale | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Rosie Grant | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Giles Gardner | First Assistant Editor |
| Richard Robbins | Original Music Composer |
| Christopher Doyle | Director of Photography |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Andre Morgan | Executive Producer |
| Paul Bradley | Co-Producer |
| Richard Hawley | Co-Producer |
| Ren Zhonglun | Producer |
| Wang Daling | Executive Producer |
| Wenxia Fu | Executive Producer |
| Patrick Ko | Executive Producer |
| Andreas Schmid | Executive Producer |
| Tianyan Wang | Executive Producer |
| Andreas Grosch | Producer |
| Marcus Schöfer | Executive Producer |
| Ismail Merchant | Producer |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
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| 2024 | 4 | 11 | 18 | 7 |
| 2024 | 5 | 12 | 20 | 8 |
| 2024 | 6 | 11 | 18 | 6 |
| 2024 | 7 | 14 | 29 | 5 |
| 2024 | 8 | 11 | 24 | 5 |
| 2024 | 9 | 8 | 15 | 4 |
| 2024 | 10 | 10 | 19 | 5 |
| 2024 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 4 |
| 2024 | 12 | 10 | 20 | 6 |
| 2025 | 1 | 9 | 17 | 6 |
| 2025 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 2 |
| 2025 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| 2025 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Trending Position
| Year | Month | High | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | 819 | 850 |