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Created: 12/16/2005
Video description: Set in Shanghai in the late 1930s, this is the story of the relationship between a disillusioned former US diplomat and a refugee White Russian countess reduced to a sordid life in the city's bars. The diplomat, Jackson, encounters the countess, Sofia, one night working at her taxi-dance hall, decides she is the perfect blend of tragedy and sensuality and asks her to become the centerpiece of his perfect bar. Thus begins a relationship that will see Jackson - despite his best efforts - slowly coaxed out of his enclosed world. A Merchant Ivory Production. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave and John Wood.

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