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Mao’s Last Dancer

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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.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 2009-10-01

Runtime: 117 mins

Director: Bruce Beresford

Spoken language: 普通话, English

Genres: Drama, Romance

Original title: Mao’s Last Dancer

Production Companies: Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.

Production Countries: Australia, China

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