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Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
Directed by Bruce Beresford
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 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.
Rated PG | Length 117 minutes
Actors
Chi Cao | Chengwu Guo | Wen Bin Huang | Joan Chen | Amanda Schull | Kyle MacLachlan | Jack Thompson | Camilla Vergotis | Madeleine Eastoe | Steven Heathcote | Aden Young | Wang Shuangbao | Barbara Bush | George H. W. Bush | Mao Zedong | Bruce Greenwood | Kip Gamblin