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.

Genre:

Drama, Romance

Duration:

117 min

Actor:

Amanda Schull, Chi Cao, Chengwu Guo

Quality:

HD

Director:

Bruce Beresford

Release:

2009

Country:

Australia, China

IMDb:

6.6