July 11^th 2011 

Matija Vlačić Ilirik Square       21,30 hours

In cooperation with Pula Film Festival

(latest feature from James Ivory’s retrospective)

and Ticketing agency Ltd. Rijeka

Movie under the stars

WHITE COUNTESS

melodrama (UK, USA, Germany, China)

Directed by: James Ivory

Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, Hiroyuki Sanada, Madeleine Potter

Amidst of civil unrests in Shanghai in 1936, with the civil war looming over the country, a blind former American diplomat and an impoverished Russian countess working as a bar-girl and a taxi dancer in order to support her family, meet. The plot revolves around an elegant night club – the White Countess...

While filming the documentary The Delhi Way, James Ivory met Ismail Merchant, an Indian producer with whom he set up a production company Merchant-Ivory that produced all his films. The collection of his works shall be divided into three parts: in India (Heat and Dust, Bombay Talkie...), in America (The Europeans. The Bostonians...) and for the Connoisseurs, a category that captures all of his major works: Maurice, A Room with a View, Howards End and The Remains of the Day. The script for The White Countess, just as for The Remains of the Day, was written by Kazuo Ishiguro. The White Countess is Ivory’s last film produced by Ismail Merchant who passed away in 2005.