IONCINEMA.com presents: Children of Huang Shi, The (2008)

CAST AND CREW

Director

Roger Spottiswoode

Cast (alphabetical order):

Radha Mitchell

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers

Michelle Yeoh

Chow Yun-Fat

The Children of Huang Shi

Release Date: May 23, 2008 - Wide Release
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Film Genre: Drama
Country: China

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Written by James MacManus and Jane Hawksley, inspired by true events, the film tells the story of George Hogg (Rhys Meyers), a young British journalist, who rescues 60 orphaned children. He leads them on a treacherous 1000-mile journey along the Silk Road, through the Liu Pan Shan Mountains into the spectacular Gobi desert. Over the course of the journey he falls in love with a determined, self-trained nurse (Mitchell), and makes a friend in Chen (Chow), the leader of a Chinese partisan group. Madame Wang (Yeoh), a surviving aristocrat, assists in guiding them to safety in a remote village near the western end of China’s Great Wall.

MOVIE NEWS ITEMS

2007-11-21
2008 Sundance Film Festival: 20 Early Predictions

2007-02-16
Sony Pictures Classics announced that they have acquired the North American rights to the pic.

2006-10-27
Variety reports that Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Michelle Yeoh, Chow Yun-Fat and Radha Mitchell will star in the pic with Roger Spottiswoode directing. Hyde Park International, Sony Classics and Dendy Films will distribute the Chinese-Australian-German co-production. Shooting begins Nov. 13 in the Chinese province of Gansu.