Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

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.

Released

2009-10-01

Genres

Drama, Romance

Runtime

117 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Bruce Beresford, Jan Sardi

TMDB rating

6.6/10 from 126 votes