Directed by | Roger Spottiswoode |
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Produced by | Arthur Cohn Wieland Schulz-Keil Jonathon Shteinman |
Written by | Jane Hawksley James MacManus |
Starring | Jonathan Rhys-Meyers Radha Mitchell Chow Yun-Fat Michelle Yeoh Guang Li |
Music by | David Hirschfelder |
Cinematography | Zhao Xiaoding |
Editing by | Geoffrey Lamb |
Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics (USA) |
Release date(s) | April 3, 2008, Asia May 23, 2008, US |
Country | Australia, China, Germany |
Summary:
Inspired by true events, "The Children of Huang Shi" is a portrayal both sweeping and intimate of people who, thrown into an unexpected and desperate situation, discover their capacity for love and responsibility. It tells how a young Englishman, George Hogg came to lead sixty orphaned boys on an extraordinary journey of almost a thousand perilous miles across the snow-bound Liu Pan Shan mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert. And of how, in doing so, he came to understand the true meaning of courage. During his journey, Hogg learns to rely on the support of Chen, the leader of a Chinese partisan group who becomes his closest friend. He soon finds himself falling in love with Lee, a recklessly brave Australian adventurer whom war has turned into an unsentimental nurse on horseback. Along the way Hogg befriends Madame Wang, an aristocratic survivor who has also been displaced by war, who helps the young Englishman, his friends and their sixty war orphans make their way across awesome (and rarely filmed) mountain and desert regions to a place of safety near the western end of the Great Wall of China.
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