Movie
The Painted Veil
2006PG-132h 5m7.3 / 10
Sometimes the greatest journey is the distance between two people.
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.
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Synopsis
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.
More about The Painted Veil
Cast
Edward NortonDr. Walter Fane
Naomi WattsKitty Fane
Liev SchreiberCharlie Townsend
Toby JonesMr. Waddington
Diana RiggMother Superior
Anthony Wong Chau-SangColonel Yu
Xia YuWu Lien
Juliet HowlandDorothy TownsendCredits
- Directed by
- John Curran
- Written by
- Ron Nyswaner, W. Somerset Maugham
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $19.4M
- Box office
- $26.9M
Production
- Emotion PicturesCanada
The Mark Gordon CompanyUnited States- Class 5 FilmsUnited States
- Warner China Film HG Corporation 中影华纳横店China
- Stratus Film Co.United States
- Bob Yari ProductionsUnited States
Themes
1920sbacteriologistbased on novel or bookchinacholeraconvent (nunnery)doctorepidemic
