Movie
The Painted Veil
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2006-12-09
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Genres
- Romance, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Emotion Pictures, The Mark Gordon Company, Class 5 Films, Warner China Film HG Corporation 中影华纳横店, Stratus Film Co., Bob Yari Productions, The Colleton Company, Dragon Studios, Salon Films, Syndicate Films, Warner Independent Pictures, China Film Co-Production
- Country
- Canada, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
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
- Zoe Telford as Leona
- Marie-Laure Descoureaux as Sister St. Joseph
Crew
- John Curran - Director
- Ron Nyswaner - Screenplay
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