Released:
2009-10-01

Overview:
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.

Director:
Bruce Beresford

Runtime:
1h 57min

Genre:
Drama, Romance

• Cast:
• 
  Amanda Schull
  as
  Elizabeth Mackey
• 
  Chi Cao
  as
  Li Cunxin - adult
• 
  Chengwu Guo
  as
  Li Cunxin - teenage
• 
  Wen Bin Huang
  as
  Li Cunxin - boy
• 
  Joan Chen
  as
  Niang