On Wings of Eagles (2016)

Eric Liddell - China's first gold medalist and one of Scotland's greatest athletes - returns to war-torn China.

Directors:

Stephen Shin, Michael Parker (co-director)

Writers:

Rubby Xu, Christopher C. Chan

Stars:

Joseph Fiennes, Bruce Locke, Shawn Dou

Cast

Credited cast:
Joseph Fiennes	...	Eric Liddell
Bruce Locke	...	Old Xu Niu (voice)
Shawn Dou	...	Xu Niu
Jesse Kove	...	Hugh Johnson
Augusta Xu-Holland	...	Catherine Standish
Elizabeth Arends	...	Florence Liddell
Richard Sanderson	...	Dr. Hubbard
Simon Twu	...	Chen Quan
Zach Ireland	...	David Marshall
Darren Grosvenor	...	Gentleman
Shigeo Kobayashi	...	Yoshinori Yumoto
Laura Justine Friis Lodahl	...	Patricia Liddell
Patrice Poujol	...	Louis Klein
Asta Friis Lodahl	...	Heather Liddell

Storyline

Eric Liddell may have won gold for the United Kingdom and possessed a lilting Highland brogue, but he was born in China and lived more than half his life there evangelizing and teaching. On Wings of Eagles is everything you ever wanted to know about what happened to Liddell - who famously refused to run an Olympic race on a Sunday to honor God - after the 1924 Olympics when he returned to China, the home of his heart. But Eric's beloved homeland is about to be occupied by Imperial Japan.

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Plot Keywords:

japanese occupation | japanese occupation of china | prisoner of war | prison camp | japanese soldier | 

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Genres:

Drama | History | Sport

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for some violent images

Details

Official Sites:

Official Site Official Site [Japan]

Country:

China Hong Kong USA

Language:

English Mandarin Japanese

Release Date:

3 November 2017 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Last Race

Filming Locations:

Tianjin, China

Company Credits

Production Co:

Goodland Pictures, Innowave Limited, BondIt Media Capital

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

64 minutes in the film one of the prisoners at a Japanese World War II internment camp is looking at a photo of Ziegfeld girl, Dorothy Flood,

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Alternate Versions

Western version (re-cut) is entitled "ON WINGS OF EAGLES"

User Reviews

Good film but...

This was a highly watchable film with good performances from Fiennes and the supporting cast. I know it's a small quibble, but I had an aunt who spent some of her childhood in a Japanese internment camp and these actors were simply too well fed. I'm not asking for the kind of extreme method acting that Chris Bale goes in for, but a loss of condition and a bit of weight loss would have added to the authenticity a little. The conditions in these places were atrocious and there just wasn't any non-make up suggestion of that. I don't know how close to the story this was but apart from my rather mean quibble, it was a good film. A couple of collar bones from naturally slender guys does not starvation show!