Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama
Release Year: 2009
Country: Australia
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Languages: English, Mandarin
Director: Bruce Beresford
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Writing by: Jan Sardi – (screenplay)
Cunxin Li – (based on the autobiography by)

Produced by: Ling Geng – co-producer
Troy Lum – executive producer
Sue MacKay – line producer
Jane Scott – producer

Cast: Bruce Greenwood – Ben Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlan – Charles Foster
Joan Chen – Niang
Chi Cao – Li Cunxin – as an adult
Amanda Schull – Elizabeth Mackey
Shuangbao Wang – Dia (as Shuang Bao Wang)
Chengwu Guo – Li Cunxin – as a teenager
Wen Bin Huang – Li Cunxin – as a child
Aden Young – Dilworth
Madeleine Eastoe – Lori
Camilla Vergotis – Mary McKendry

Music: Christopher Gordon
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Plot Outline: A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese…
Plot: A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. 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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