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 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.
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Director: Bruce Beresford
Actors: Aden Young, Bruce Greenwood, Chi Cao, Christopher Kirby, Madeleine Eastoe, Neng Neng Zhang, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Shu Guang Liang, Suzie Steen, Wen Bin Huang, Ye Wang
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