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China Heavyweight
IDFA 2012

China Heavyweight

Yung Chang
Canada, China
2012
93 min
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In central China, a Master coach recruits poor rural teenagers and turns them into Western-style boxing champions. Through hard work and discipline, these boys and girls come of age, trained in the art of boxing and the game of life. They are filled with Olympic dreams, hoping to become China’s next amateur heroes. The top student boxers face dramatic choices as they graduate - should they fight for the collective good as amateurs or for their own personal gain as professionals? It’s a metaphor for the choices that everyone faces now, in the New China.

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