Leap

The film covers forty years of the Chinese women's national volleyball team. In 1981 the team wins its first world championship, a squad training by hitting the ball against a wall in a hall with no warm-up facilities. Among them is the young Lang Ping. The years pass; Lang Ping goes to the United States and coaches there, then returns home to take charge of the national team. At Rio in 2016, China reaches an Olympic final again after twelve years. Peter Chan directs, with Gong Li as Lang Ping and Huang Bo as the coach Chen Zhonghe. Two hours and fifteen minutes. The release was postponed because of the pandemic, and Chen Zhonghe objected to how he was portrayed and said he would sue.