“Before you can fly, you have to be free.”
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
- Status
- Released
- Original Language
- English
- Production
- Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
- Budget
- $25M
- Box Office
- $23.91M
Cast
Bruce GreenwoodBen Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlanCharles Foster
Joan ChenNiang
Chi CaoLi Cunxin - adult
Amanda SchullElizabeth Mackey
Wang ShuangbaoDia
Aden YoungDilworth
Jack ThompsonJudge Woodrow Seals
Penne Hackforth-JonesCynthia DoddsChengwu GuoLi Cunxin - teenageWen Bin HuangLi Cunxin - boyMadeleine EastoeLoriMedia
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At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston …
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