The Children of Huang Shi (Variety Review)

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"The Children of Huang Shi"
(Australia-U.S.-China-Germany)

A Sony Pictures Classics (in U.S.) release of a Film Finance Corp. Australia (Australia)/Rouge Entertainment (U.S.) presentation of an Arthur Cohn/Wieland Schulz-Keil production and a Ming Prods. (China)/Bluewater Pictures (Australia)/Zero Fiction (Germany)/Cheerland (China) production, in association with Rough Cut Pictures, Filmko Films Distribution, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Intl. Film Collective, in cooperation with Pictorian Pictures. Produced by Cohn, Schulz-Keil, Peter Loehr, Jonathan Shteinman, Martin Hagemann. Executive producers, Taylor Thomson, Lillian Birnbaum. Co-producer, Yuan Mei. Directed by Roger Spottiswoode. Screenplay, James MacManus, Jane Hawksley.

The heroic true tale of a Brit journalist’s rescue of dozens of orphaned Chinese youth in the face of an advancing Japanese army has become a cloddish if gorgeous-looking wartime adventure epic in “The Children of Huang Shi.â€