Dragon Girls

Dragon Girls

90 mins | Drama, Action, Documentary | Nov. 29, 2012

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.

Dragon Girls

90 mins | Drama, Action, Documentary | Nov. 29, 2012

Dragon Girls
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.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers WVG Medien GmbH, Polyband
Original title Drachenmädchen
Directors Inigo Westmeier
Writers Inigo Westmeier, Benjamin Quabeck

Cast

Huang Luolan

as Dragon Girl

Chen Xi

as Dragon Girl

Xin Chenxi

as Dragon Girl

Yang Ziyu

as Dragon Girl

Quan Ling

as Dragon Girl

Xu Manyu

as Dragon Girl

Liu Heike

as Principal