55 Days at Peking
(1963)
★ 6.9 IMDb · 192 votes
Year: 1963
Runtime: 154 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Чарлтон Хестон, Ава Гарднер, Дэвид Нивен, Flora Robson, John Ireland, Гарри Эндрюс, Leo Genn, Robert Helpmann, Kurt Kasznar, Philippe Leroy
Plot
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.