Release Date

01 Oct, 2009

Runtime

01:57: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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 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.

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Actors

Chi Cao

Chengwu Guo

Wen Bin Huang

Joan Chen

Bruce Greenwood

Amanda Schull

Kyle MacLachlan

Jack Thompson

Camilla Vergotis

Madeleine Eastoe

Steven Heathcote

Aden Young

Wang Shuangbao

Barbara Bush

George H. W. Bush

Mao Zedong

Bruce Greenwood

Kip Gamblin

Crew

Bruce Beresford

Troy Lum

Cunxin Li

Sue MacKay

Elaine Kusmishko

Peter James

Kerrie Brown

Mark Warner

Ziggy Golden

Geng Ling

Maree McDonald

Xin Mu

Jan Sardi

Christopher Gordon