Before you can fly, you have to be free.
6.6
117 min
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.
Name | Character | Team | |
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Chi Cao | Li Cunxin - adult | Unowned | |
Chengwu Guo | Li Cunxin - teenage | Unowned | |
Wen Bin Huang | Li Cunxin - boy | Unowned | |
Joan Chen | Niang | Zac E. Chan | |
Bruce Greenwood | Ben Stevenson | Unowned | |
Amanda Schull | Elizabeth Mackey | Unowned | |
Kyle MacLachlan | Charles Foster | The Free Refills | |
Jack Thompson | US Federal Judge | Unowned | |
Camilla Vergotis | Mary McKendry | Unowned | |
Madeleine Eastoe | Lori | Unowned | |
Steven Heathcote | Bobby Cordner | Unowned | |
Aden Young | Dilworth | Unowned | |
Wang Shuangbao | Unowned | ||
Barbara Bush | Herself (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned | |
George H. W. Bush | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned | |
Mao Zedong | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) | Unowned | |
Bruce Greenwood | Unowned | ||
Kip Gamblin | David | Unowned |