Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
6.6
/10 By 113 Votes
Overview : 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.
Release Date : October 1, 2009
Runtime : 117m
Companies : Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
Countries : Australia, China
Keywords : dance, dancer, village, ballet dancer, rags to riches, promise, ballet, communism
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