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Mao's Last Dancer
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Runtime
117 min
Status
Released
Language
EN
Popularity
7.04
Director
Bruce Beresford
Writers
Jan Sardi

Mao's Last Dancer

2009 Rated PG · ⭐ 6.7 · Votes: 97
“Before you can fly, you have to be free.”
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 fell 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.

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