Production Companies: Shanghai Film Group , Merchant Ivory Productions , China Film Co-Production Corp. , Rising Star Productions , Global Cinema Group , Sony Pictures Classics , VIP Medienfonds 3 , Global Cinema .
Overview: 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.
, Merchant Ivory Productions , China Film Co-Production Corp. , Rising Star Productions , Global Cinema Group , Sony Pictures Classics 
, VIP Medienfonds 3 
, Global Cinema .
