‘The Children of Huang Shi’

From Sony Classics: "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 (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) 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 (Chow Yun Fat), the leader of a Chinese partisan group who becomes his closest friend. He soon finds himself falling in love with Lee (Radha Mitchell), a recklessly brave Australian adventurer whom war has turned into an unsentimental nurse on horseback. Along the way Hogg befriends Madame Wang (Michelle Yeoh), 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 awesome (and rarely filmed) mountain and desert regions to a place of safety near the western end of the Great Wall of China."

Director Roger Spottiswoode

Left: Jonathan Rhys Meyers Right: Director Roger Spottiswoode

Left: Guang Li as Shi Kai Right: Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg

Left: Guang Li as Shi Kai Right: Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg

Left: Michelle Yeoh as Madame Wang Right: Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg

Left: Michelle Yeoh as Madame Wang Right: Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg

Michelle Yeoh as Madame Wang

Radha Mitchell as Lee Pearson

Left: Radha Mitchell as Lee Pearson Right: Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg

Left: Radha Mitchell as Lee Pearson Right: Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg

Left: Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg Right: Chow Yun-Fat as Jack Chen

Left: Chow Yun-Fat as Jack Chen Right: Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg

Left: Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg Right: Chow Yun-Fat as Jack Chen

Chow Yun-Fat as Jack Chen

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg with the Children of Huang Shi

Radha Mitchell as Lee Pearson with the Children of Huang Shi


Left: The Children of Huang Shi Right: Guang Li as Shi Kai

Left: Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg with The Children of Huang Shi

Radha Mitchell as Lee Pearson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg


Left to Right: Japanese Patrolman, Chow Yun-Fat as Jack Chen, One of the Children of Huang Shi, Japanese Patrolman

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg and Director Roger Spottiswoode


Radha Mitchell as Lee Pearson and Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as George Hogg and one of the Children of Huang Shi