Mao’s Last Dancer

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

• Rated 6.6 out of 10
• Movie
• 2009
• 1h 57m
• Drama
• Romance

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.

Director

Bruce Beresford

Starring

Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen, Chi Cao