DVD 125 mins IMDB 7.7

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#21

Drama, Romance

Naomi Watts	Kitty Fane
Edward Norton	Walter Fane
Liev Schreiber	Charlie Townsend
Toby Jones	Waddington
Zoe Telford	Leona
Juliet Howland	Dorothy Townsend
Anthony Wong Chau-Sang	General Yu
Maggie Steed	Mrs. Garstin
Diana Rigg	Mother Superior
Catherine An	Hostess
Bin Li	Te-Ming
Bin Wu	Student 1
Alan David	Mr. Garstin

Director	John Curran; John Curran (II)
Producer	Antonia Barnard; Sara Colleton; Naomi Watts; Edward Norton
Writer	Ron Nyswaner; W. Somerset Maugham

This is the story of a British doctor named Walter Fane (Edward Norton) who loves a young girl named Kitty (Naomi Watts). She is only interested in parties and pleasure but agrees to marry him. They travel to Shaghai where Walter works in a laboratory researching infectious diseases. Kitty begins an affair with a British official (Liev Schreiber). When Walter discovers this, he forces Kitty to accompany him to a rural area where there is a cholera epidemic. The couple are faced with great dangers both from the epidemic and from discontent among the local population but eventually come to respect and love each other.