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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 fell 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.
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Director: Bruce Beresford
Actors: Amanda Schull, Bruce Greenwood, Camilla Vergotis, Chengwu Guo, Chi Cao, Jack Thompson, Joan Chen, Kyle MacLachlan, Madeleine Eastoe, Wen Bin Huang
Country: Australia
Release Date: 2009-10-01
Duration:
1h 57minRelease: 2009
Awards: 7 wins & 20 nominations
IMDb: 7.3
TMDB: 6.631
Metacritic: 55/100