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Mao’s Last Dancer
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.
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“Before you can fly, you have to be free.”
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Mao's Last Dancer - Official HD Trailer by Bruce Beresford
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- Oct 1, 2009
- 1h 57m
- Mandarin
- Bruce Beresford
- Jan Sardi, Cunxin Li
- Released
- $25.0M
- $23.9M
Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
