Mao’s Last Dancer
Mao’s Last Dancer
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
Country: CN, AU, US
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2009-10-01
Director: Bruce Beresford
Production: Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
Cast: Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen, Chi Cao, Amanda Schull
Tagline: Before you can fly, you have to be free.
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