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 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.
Genres: Drama , Music , Romance , Biography
Actors: Christopher Kirby , Aden Young , Chi Cao , Bruce Greenwood , Penne Hackforth-Jones , Suzie Steen , Madeleine Eastoe , Wen Bin Huang , Shu Guang Liang , Ye Wang , Neng Neng Zhang
Director: Bruce Beresford
Country: Australia
Duration: 117 min
Quality: HD
Release: 2009
IMDb: 6.8