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Mao’s Last Dancer6.6

2009|1h 57min|16+

  • OVERVIEW
  • TRAILER
  • ACTORS
  • COMPANIES

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.

LanguageEnglish, Mandarin

GenresDrama, Romance

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