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    Mao’s Last Dancer

    Mao’s Last Dancer

    "Before you can fly, you have to be free."

    2009

    1:57:46

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    6.6/10 (114)

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    Mao’s Last Dancer

    Genre

    Drama
    Romance

    Plot

    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.

    Director

    Bruce Beresford

    Writers

    Cunxin Li, Jan Sardi,

    Stars

    Chi Cao, Chengwu Guo, Wen Bin Huang, Joan Chen, Bruce Greenwood,