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Directed by | Roger Spottiswoode |
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Cinematography | Zhao Xiaoding |
Edited by | Geoffrey Lamb Dominique Fortin |
Music by | David Hirschfelder |
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Running time | 125 minutes |
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Budget | $40 million |
Box office | $8.2 million[1] |
The Children of Huang Shi (Chinese: 黄石的孩子; working title: The Bitter Sea, also known as Escape from Huang Shi and Children of the Silk Road) is a 2008 historical war drama film directed by Roger Spottiswoode, and starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh and David Wenham. The film centers on the true story of George Hogg and the sixty orphans that he led across China in an effort to save them from conscription during the Second Sino-Japanese War.