2009 · 117 min · Drama, Romance
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.
Directed by Bruce Beresford. Starring Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen, Chi Cao and Amanda Schull.
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