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.
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
Cast
Amanda Schull
Chi Cao
Chengwu Guo
Wen Bin Huang
Joan Chen
Bruce Greenwood
Kyle MacLachlan
Jack Thompson
Camilla Vergotis
Madeleine Eastoe
Steven Heathcote
Aden Young
Wang Shuangbao
Barbara Bush
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