Before you can fly, you have to be free.
Director: Bruce Beresford
Producer: Jane Scott
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.
117 min
Rating: 6.6/10
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Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
Joan Chen
Niang
Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
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Director: Bruce Beresford
Producer: Jane Scott
Production Companies: Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
Countries: Australia, China
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