The Painted Veil DVD 2006 Színes Fátyol / Directed by John Curran / Starring: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Toby Jones

UPC 5996357343226

MADE IN EU

REGION 2 PAL DVD

Audio: English 5.1, Hungarian 5.1

Subtitles: Hungarian

Runtime: 125 minutes

English Summary:

The Painted Veil is a 2006 American drama film directed by John Curran. The screenplay by Ron Nyswaner is based on the 1925 eponymous novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Toby Jones, Anthony Wong Chau Sang and Liev Schreiber appear in the leading roles.

On a brief trip back to London, earnest, bookish bacteriologist Walter Fane (Edward Norton) is dazzled by Kitty Garstin (Naomi Watts), a vain London socialite. He proposes; she accepts ("only to get as far away from [her] mother as possible"), and the couple honeymoon in Venice. They travel on to Walter's medical post in Shanghai, where he is stationed in a government lab studying infectious diseases. They find themselves ill-suited, with Kitty much more interested in parties and the social life of the British expatriates.

Kitty meets Charles Townsend (Liev Schreiber), a married British vice consul, and the two engage in a clandestine affair. When Walter discovers his wife's infidelity, he seeks to punish her by threatening to divorce her on the grounds of adultery, if she doesn't accompany him to a small village in a remote area of China. He has volunteered to treat victims of an unchecked cholera epidemic sweeping through the area. Kitty begs to be allowed to divorce him quietly, but he refuses, stating "Why should I put myself through the smallest trouble for you?" She hopes Townsend will leave his wife Dorothy and marry her. When she proposes this possibility to Charles, he declines to accept, despite earlier claiming to love Kitty.

Hungarian Summary:

A középosztálybeli orvos, Walter és az elkényeztetett, felsőosztálybeli Kitty házassága elhibázott döntés volt. Kitty, férje munkája miatt, londoni életét hátrahagyva Sanghajba költözik, ahol rátalál a szerelem a helyi konzul személyében. Miután Walter felfedezi hűtlenségét, büntetésképpen a kolera által legsúlyosabban érintett területen fogad el egy állást, és ragaszkodik hozzá, hogy Kitty is vele tartson. Az utazás a gyönyörű távoli kínai faluba és az ott megélt szörnyűségek értelmet és célt adnak elveszettnek hitt kapcsolatuknak.

Cast / Szereplők:

• Edward Norton as Walter Fane
• Naomi Watts as Kitty Garstin Fane
• Toby Jones as Waddington
• Diana Rigg as Mother Superior
• Anthony Wong as Colonel Yu
• Liev Schreiber as Charles Townsend
• Juliet Howland as Dorothy Townsend
• Alan David as Mr. Garstin
• Maggie Steed as Mrs. Garstin
• Cheng Sihan as Warlord Kwei
• Lucy Voller as Doris Garstin
• Marie-Laure Descoureaux as Sister St. Joseph
• Zoe Telford as Leona
• Lü Yan as Wan Xi
• Xia Yu as Wu Lien
• Feng Li as Song Qing