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Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

Drama Romance

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

Release Date: 2009, October 1
Directors: Bruce Beresford
Countries: Australia, China
Production: Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, George H. W. Bush, Bruce Greenwood, Joan Chen, Jack Thompson, Kip Gamblin, Aden Young, Amanda Schull, Mao Zedong, Steven Heathcote, Barbara Bush, Chi Cao

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 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.

Keywords:

based on true story communism dance village rags to riches ballet ballet dancer dancer promise