Acclaimed actors Ralph Fiennes and Natasha Richardson headline the cast in this final film collaboration between legendary producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory (three-time Oscar? nominees for best picture and best director - A Room With A View / 1986; Howard's End / 1993; The Remains of the Day /1994).

1930's Shanghai provides the backdrop for this spellbinding drama - an epic of love and war with "Echoes of Casablanca (Ebert & Roeper)". "Gorgeous, consummately acted and emotionally rich (Laura Kelly, South Florida Sun-Sentinel), The White Countess is filmmaking of the highest order and rightly heralded as one of the top films of 2005.