Mao’s Last Dancer

"Before you can fly, you have to be free."

2009 ★ 6.6 TMDB 117 min PG IMDb TMDB English Bruce Beresford

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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.

Drama Romance