The read
It runs a compact 1h 30m.
Synopsis
The documentary film Dragon Girls tells the story of three young Chinese girls training to become Kung Fu fighters, far away from their families, at the largest Kung Fu school in China. These girls, in a crowd of 26,000 children, are under constant pressure to conform to the norms and structures. They are turned into fighting robots and yet, if you look behind the curtain, you see children with dreams and aspirations. It show the controversial world of selection of the fittest in a totalitarian system.
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
21 audience votes
Key crew
- Inigo WestmeierWriter
- Inigo WestmeierDirector
- Benjamin QuabeckWriter
Cast
- Huang LuolanDragon Girl
- Chen XiDragon Girl
- Xin ChenxiDragon Girl
- Yang ZiyuDragon Girl
- Quan LingDragon Girl
- Xu ManyuDragon Girl
- Liu HeikePrincipal