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Dragon Girls (2012)

Dragon Girls (2012)

Action Drama Documentary

Xin Chenxi: Tears are an expression of weakness.

Release Date: 2012, November 29
Directors: Inigo Westmeier
Countries: Germany
Production: Polyband, WVG Medien
Cast: Chen Xi, Huang Luolan, Xin Chenxi, Yang Ziyu, Quan Ling, Xu Manyu, Liu Heike

Overview:

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.