From Jurgen Fauth & Marcy Dermansky,
Your Guide to World / Independent Film.
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Inspired by true events, the film tells the story of George Hogg, 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, and makes a friend in Chen, the leader of a Chinese partisan group. Madame Wang, a surviving aristocrat, assists in guiding them to safety in a remote village near the western end of China’s Great Wall.

Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Michelle Yeoh, Chow Yun-Fat, Radha Mitchell, Guang Wen Li
Directed by: Roger Spottiswoode
Produced by: Arthur Cohn, Wieland Schulz-Keil, Peter Loehr

Release Date: May 23rd, 2008 (limited)
Distributors: Sony Pictures Classics