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From internationally celebrated director Zhang Yimou (JU DOU, RAISE THE RED LANTERN, HERO, HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS) comes a story of love and war. The dangerous streets of Nanjing throw together a group of opposites a flock of shell-shocked school children, a dozen seductive courtesans, and a renegade American (Academy Award winner Christian Bale, THE FIGHTER, THE DARK KNIGHT) posing as a priest to save his own skin, or so he thinks, all seeking safety behind a walled cathedral. Trapped by marauding soldiers, over the next few days the prejudices and divides between them will fall away as they unite around a last-ditch plan to protect the children from impending catastrophe.