Mao’s Last DancerMovie
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.
About Mao’s Last Dancer
Mao’s Last Dancer is a 2009 drama, romance movie directed by Bruce Beresford.
The production information lists a runtime of 1h 57m, production credits from Australia, China, an original language code of EN.
The credited cast includes Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen, Chi Cao. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
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