The Children of Huang Shi

The Children of Huang Shi

6.7IMDb Score
Released:2008-04-03
Genre:Drama,War
Duration:125 min
Director:Roger Spottiswoode
Actors:Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat, Anastasia Kolpakova, Michelle Yeoh
Production:Australian Film Finance Corporation, Zero Fiction Film, Ming Productions, Bluewater Pictures, Cheerland Entertainment Organization, Hyde Park Entertainment, Rouge Entertainment Group, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Filmstiftung NRW, Australian Film Commission, Zero West Filmproduktion, Pictorion Pictures

Overview:

About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.

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