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.
Director : Bruce BeresfordCast : Amanda Schull|Bruce Greenwood|Camilla Vergotis|Chengwu Guo|Chi Cao|Jack Thompson|Joan Chen|Kyle MacLachlan|Madeleine Eastoe|Wen Bin Huang
Genre : Drama|Romance
Release Date : 2009-10-01
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