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Movie
Silk
Synopsis
Francois Girard's 19th-century romantic drama stars Michael Pitt as Hervé Joncour, a silkworm merchant who travels to Japan to procure uncontaminated silkworm eggs, which will allow Europe to control its own trade. He leaves behind his wife Hélène but once in Japan, falls for the mistress of his local contact in the silk industry. So taken is Hervé with her that, despite the success of his mission and his love for Hélène, he returns twice more, unable to give up either woman in his life, until fate intervenes.
Cast
- Michael Pitt
- Keira Knightley
- Alfred Molina
- Koji Yakusho
- Miki Nakatani
- Mark Rendall
- Marc Fiorini
- Jun Kunimura
- Sei Ashina
- Tony Vogel
- Callum Keith Rennie
- Toni Bertorelli
- Kenneth Welsh
- Martha Burns
- Michael Golding
- Carlo Cecchi
- Chiara Stampone
- Leslie Csuth
- Toru Tezuka
- Hiroya Morita
- Patrice Theroux
- Daniel Bisson
- Susie Figgis
- Carlo Poggioli
- Jonathan Debin
- Tom Yoda
- Fumio Ogawa
- Claude La Haye
- François Séguin
- Akira Ishii
- Pia Di Ciaula
- Yasushi Shiina
- Emita Frigato
- Camela Galano
- Alain Dostie
- Claude Beaugrand
- François Girard
- Olivier Calvert
- Hans Peter Strobl
- Kazuko Kurosawa
- Michael Golding
- Bernard Gariépy Strobl