
The Painted Veil(1934)
The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.


“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.

Edward Norton
Dr. Walter Fane

Naomi Watts
Kitty Fane

Liev Schreiber
Charlie Townsend

Toby Jones
Mr. Waddington

Diana Rigg
Mother Superior

Anthony Wong Chau-Sang
Colonel Yu

Xia Yu
Wu Lien

Juliet Howland
Dorothy Townsend
Ian Renwick
Geoffrey Denison

Li Bin
Te-Ming
The Painted Veil is a romance, drama film released in 2006 exploring themes of infidelity, china, based on novel or book, shanghai, china, nun, cholera. Directed by John Curran, it stars Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber. 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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