2009PG· 117 min
Mao's Last Dancer
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
Drama
6.6 / 10TMDB Score
Summary
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
Cast: Amanda Schull, Chi Cao, Chengwu Guo, Wen Bin Huang, Joan Chen
Tags
american dreamballetcapitalismchinaChinacommunismcostumedancedancerdefection
