Credits
- Kitty Fane
- Naomi Watts
- Walter Fane
- Edward Norton
- Colonel Yu
- Anthony Wong
- Waddington
- Toby Jones
- Mother Superior
- Diana Rigg
- Charlie Townsend
- Liev Schreiber
- Mary
- Sally Hawkins
- Director
- John J Curran
Duration: 2 hours
China 1925. A reserved young doctor falls for an attractive socialite. However, her motives for marrying him prove more pragmatic than passionate, and in Shanghai she takes a lover. As a result the doctor volunteers to help in a remote village stricken with cholera, where the couple's relationship comes under even greater pressure. Drama based on the novel by W Somerset Maugham.
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