Mao's Last Dancer

1080p 117 min 2009 Published on, 1 year ago

6.6

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 fell 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

Australia

Genre

Drama Romance

Released

01 Oct, 2009

Main Cast

Chi Cao , Joan Chen , Bruce Greenwood , Amanda Schull , Kyle MacLachlan

Supporting Cast

Jack Thompson , Aden Young , Wang Shuangbao , Barbara Bush , George H. W. Bush

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