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| | Children of Huang Shi (23%)
Genres: Drama, War
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
Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg, Radha Mitchell as Lee Pearson, Yun-Fat Chow as Chen Hansheng, Michelle Yeoh as Mrs. Wang, Guang Li as Shi-Kai, Lin Ji as Horse Rider, Matt Walker as Andy Fisher, Anastasia Kolpakova as Duschka, Ping Su as Eddie Wei, Imai Hideaki as Japanese Officer |
