The children of Huang Shi [videorecording] / an Arthur Cohn/Wieland Schultz-Keil production ; directed by Roger Spottiswoode ; produced by Arthur Cohn, Wieland Schulz-Keil ; producers, Peter Loehr, Jonathan Shteinman, Martin Hagemann ; written by James MacManus and Jane Hawksley ; a Roger Spottiswoode film ; a Film Finance Corporation Australia and Rogue Entertainment presentation ; a Ming Production ... [et al.] production ; in association with Rough Cut Pictures and Filmko Films Distribution ; in association with Filmstiflung Nordrhein-Westfalen and International Film Collective ; produced in co-operation with Pictorion Pictures.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Yun-Fat Chow, David Wenham, Michelle Yeoh. Special features: The Challenge of Huang Shi; theatrical trailer; previews. Originally produced in 2008.
Summary:
Set in the 1930's in war-torn China and inspired by true events. George Hogg is a young Englishman who leads sixty orphaned boys on an extraordinary journey of almost a thousand miles across the snow-bound Liu Pan Shan mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert. During his journey, George 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 the Australian adventurer Lee, an unsentimental nurse. Along the way, Hogg befriends Madame Wang, an aristocratic survivor who has also been displaced by war. She helps the young Englishman, his friends and their sixty war orphans make their way to safety near the western end of the Great Wall of China.
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