Summary:
People thrown into an unexpected and desperate situation discover their capacity for love and responsibility. A young Englishman, George Hogg, comes to lead sixty orphaned boys on a journey of over 500 perilous miles across the snow-bound Liu Pan Shan mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert. And how, in doing so, he comes to understand the meaning of courage. During his journey, Hogg learns to rely on the support of Chen, the leader of a Chinese communist partisan group who becomes his closest friend. He soon finds himself falling in love with Lee, a recklessly brave American nurse whom war has turned into an unsentimental healer 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 mountain and desert regions to a place of safety near the western end of the Great Wall of China.
| Runtime: | 125 min |
|---|---|
| Rating: | Rated R for some disturbing and violent content. |
| Production: | Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC) |
| Genres: | Drama, War |
| Countries: | China, Germany, Australia |
| Languages: | English, Mandarin, Japanese |
| Home Release Date: | Jan 20, 2009 |
| Director | Credit |
|---|---|
| Roger Spottiswoode | Director |
| Writer | Credit |
|---|---|
| James MacManus | Writer |
| Jane Hawksley | Writer |
| Simon van der Borgh | Writer |
| Principal Cast | Credit |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Rhys Meyers | George Hogg |
| Radha Mitchell | Lee Pearson |
| Yun-Fat Chow | Chen Hansheng |
| Cast | Credit |
|---|---|
| Anastasia Kolpakova | Duschka |
| Guang Li | Shi-Kai |
| Imai Hideaki | Japanese Officer |
| Lin Ji | Horse Rider |
| Matt Walker | Andy Fisher |
| Michelle Yeoh | Mrs. Wang |
| Ping Su | Eddie Wei |
| Ruixiang Zhu | Japanese Officer II |
| Sciichiro Hashimoto | Urbane Japanese Officer |
| Shinichi Takashima | Hostile Kempetai Officer |
| Xing Mang | Young Communist |
| Yuelong Fang | Rou Ding |
| Producer | Credit |
|---|---|
| Alan D. Lee | Produced In Collaboration With |
| Arthur Cohn | Producer |
| James MacManus | Associate Producer |
| Jonathan Shteinman | Producer |
| Lillian Birnbaum | Executive Producer |
| Martin Hagemann | Producer |
| Nina Yang | Produced In Collaboration With |
| Peter Loehr | Producer |
| Steve D. Yang | Produced In Collaboration With |
| Taylor Thomson | Executive Producer |
| Wieland Schulz-Keil | Producer |
| Yong Er | Line Producer |
| Yuan Mei | Co-Producer |
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