Drachenmädchen

2012 [GERMAN]

Action / Biography / Documentary / Drama / Sport

12
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 78%
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 291 291

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Inigo Westmeier Photo
Inigo Westmeier

Top cast

Zhou Jin Ji Photo
Zhou Jin Ji as Trainer
Liu Heike Photo
Liu Heike as Principal
Jang Hualei Photo
Jang Hualei as Trainer
Manyu Xu Photo
Manyu Xu as Dragon Girl
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
769.77 MB
1280*694
Chinese 2.0
12
Subtitles
25 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 1
1.44 GB
1920*1040
Chinese 2.0
12
Subtitles
25 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 8 / 10

A respectful and tender look at the lives

A respectful and tender look at the lives of the young female students at the Shaolin Kung Fu school which is regarded as the birthplace of kung fu. Unsurprisingly, considering Westmeier's acclaimed background as a cinematographer, the film is of a rare beauty. It comes across as an intimate and reverential look at a different culture, but also at the school itself and its inhabitants, whether it is when filming the 35,000 students lined up as disciplined soldiers or the face of a girl forcefully restraining the tears overcome with the stress induced by the hard training and the sadness of being so far from home - not to mention that the camera moves as smoothly as brushstrokes on a canvas in the scenes where the girls reveal their amazing martial arts skills through exhibitions that could easily be defined as nothing short of poetic. It is also amazing to see how close Westmeier was able to get to the girls, whose childish warmth cannot be concealed by the tough training and hard lives they must endure. Yet, the enjoyment and gratification of Dragon Girls also comes down to his great choice of respecting the foreign Shaolin tradition by not giving into facile judgemental viewpoints and conclusions dictated by Western world ethics.
Reviewed by antti p 6 / 10

Interesting documentary on the huge Chinese Shao Lin

Interesting documentary on the huge Chinese Shao Lin kung fu school with its 35 000 students.
Reviewed by R T 8 / 10

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