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.

• DirectorBruce Beresford
• Release1 October 2009
• Genre
  Drama / Romance
• Duration1h 57m
• Budget$25,000,000
• Revenue$23,914,731
• Rate
  

  6.6
  118 reviews
• Productions

  Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.