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6.6/10 • 115

2009-10-011h 57m

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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.

Directors
Bruce Beresford
Editors
Mark Warner

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  1. Amanda Schull

    Amanda Schull

    Elizabeth Mackey

  2. Chi Cao

    Chi Cao

    Li Cunxin - adult

  3. Chengwu Guo

    Chengwu Guo

    Li Cunxin - teenage

  4. Wen Bin Huang

    Wen Bin Huang

    Li Cunxin - boy

  5. Joan Chen

    Joan Chen

    Niang

  6. Bruce Greenwood

    Bruce Greenwood

    Ben Stevenson

  7. Kyle MacLachlan

    Kyle MacLachlan

    Charles Foster

  8. Jack Thompson

    Jack Thompson

    US Federal Judge

  9. Camilla Vergotis

    Camilla Vergotis

    Mary McKendry

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$25,000,000.00
Revenue
$23,914,731.00
Keywords
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