
The Painted Veil(2006)
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.


“Do not pass love by...It may never come again!”
The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.

Greta Garbo
Katrin Koerber Fane

Herbert Marshall
Walter Fane

George Brent
Jack Townsend

Warner Oland
General Yu

Jean Hersholt
Herr Koerber

Bodil Rosing
Frau Koerber

Katharine Alexander
Mrs. Townsend

Cecilia Parker
Olga

Soo Yong
Amah

Forrester Harvey
Waddington
The Painted Veil is a drama, romance film released in 1934 exploring themes of china, based on novel or book, cholera, doctor, epidemic, extramarital affair. Directed by Richard Boleslawski, it stars Greta Garbo, Herbert Marshall, George Brent. The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.
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