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Dragon Girls

Dragon Girls

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 29, 2012

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Documentary, Action, Drama

User Score

68%

Original Title

Drachenmädchen

Production Companies

Polyband, WVG Medien

Director

Inigo Westmeier

Description

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.