Before you can fly, you have to be free.
Released: 2009-10-01
Runtime: 117 minutes
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.
Budget: $25000000
Revenue: $23914731
Popularity: 1.5891
Vote Average: 6.57 ({{ mov_details.vote_count }} votes)
Status: Released
IMDb: tt1071812
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2006-03-24
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1979-08-03
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1939-04-07
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1942-05-29
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1956-11-08
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1976-09-17
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1984-02-17
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1980-05-16
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2005-10-18
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1977-01-01
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1946-12-02
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2022-04-01
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1978-01-18
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1998-06-19
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