Mao's Last Dancer
– At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and ..
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.
01 Oct 2010
English, Mandarin
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Bruce Beresford
Jan Sardi (screenplay), Cunxin Li (autobiography)
Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Christopher Kirby
A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. 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.
6 wins & 20 nominations.
$4,806,750
Samuel Goldwyn Films