Mao’s Last Dancer2009
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 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.
- Released
- 1. 10. 2009
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Certification
- PG
- Country, language
- AU · EN
- Community rating
- 6.5 · 120 votes