Mao’s Last Dancer 2009
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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 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.
- Released: 2009-10-01
- Runtime: 117 minutes
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Stars: Chi Cao, Chengwu Guo, Wen Bin Huang, Joan Chen, Bruce Greenwood
- Director: Bruce Beresford, Troy Lum, Cunxin Li, Sue MacKay, Elaine Kusmishko
- Source: Layarstar
