This film is adapted from W. The title of Somerset Maugham's novel "The Painted Veil" is taken from Shelley's poetry and the original word is "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life". Director Ronald Nim adapted the novel into a film in 1957, and director John Karan adapted the novel into the film "Veil (English film title The Painted Veil)" in 2005. Synopsis: Hong Kong after World War II is waiting for prosperity. The heroine Carol (Eleanor Parker Eleanor Parker) is having an affair with a married man, Paul (Jean-Pierre Ormont Jean Pierre Aumont). Her husband, Walter (Bill Travers Bill Travers), a doctor, found out and asked her to make a choice: either go with him to a remote village in Chinese mainland, where he will control a cholera epidemic, or she would face a public divorce scandal. Card.
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