Mao’s Last Dancer
2009 · 1h 57m · Drama, Romance · Australia, China · Rated PG (US)
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
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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Bruce BeresfordWritten by
Jan Sardi6.4Smart score
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