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The Painted Veil
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
2006 · Directed by John Curran · 125 min · Romance · Drama · 14 frames
Tagline
Sometimes the greatest journey is the distance between two people.
Crew
- Screenplay: Ron Nyswaner
- Cinematography: Stuart Dryburgh
- Edited by: Alexandre de Franceschi
- Music: Alexandre Desplat
- Production design: Juhua Tu
- Produced by: Jean-François Fonlupt, Edward Norton, Antonia Barnard, Ming Beaver Kwei
Cast
- Edward Norton as Dr. Walter Fane
- Naomi Watts as Kitty Fane
- Liev Schreiber as Charlie Townsend
- Toby Jones as Mr. Waddington
- Diana Rigg as Mother Superior
- Anthony Wong Chau-Sang as Colonel Yu
- Xia Yu as Wu Lien
- Juliet Howland as Dorothy Townsend
- Ian Renwick as Geoffrey Denison
- Li Bin as Te-Ming
Production
- Country: Canada, United States of America, China, Hong Kong
- Language: French, Mandarin, English
- Studios: Emotion Pictures, The Mark Gordon Company, Class 5 Films, Warner China Film HG Corporation 中影华纳横店
- Budget: $19,400,000
- Box office: $26,910,847
- Themes: infidelity, china, based on novel or book, shanghai, china, nun, cholera, foreign aid, doctor, epidemic, convent (nunnery)
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