Mao’s Last Dancer
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
Film20091h 57mReleased
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- Director
- Bruce Beresford
- Language
- English
- Released
- 2009-10-01
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
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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.
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