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.
Year: 2009
Studio: Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
Director: Bruce Beresford
Cast: Amanda Schull, Chi Cao, Chengwu Guo, Wen Bin Huang, Joan Chen, Bruce Greenwood
Crew: Bruce Beresford (Director), Troy Lum (Executive Producer), Cunxin Li (Author), Sue MacKay (Line Producer), Elaine Kusmishko (Art Direction), Peter James (Director of Photography)
Keyword : dance, dancer, village, ballet dancer, rags to riches, based on true story, promise, ballet, communism
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