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.

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Genres: Drama ,Romance

Director: Bruce Beresford

Actors: Chi Cao ,Chengwu Guo ,Wen Bin Huang ,Joan Chen ,Bruce Greenwood ,Amanda Schull ,Kyle MacLachlan ,Jack Thompson ,Camilla Vergotis ,Madeleine Eastoe

Duration: 1h 57m

IMDB rating: 6.6