Mao's Last Dancer 2009

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

6.6 / 10   110 vote(s)
PG
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 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.

Release Date 2009-10-01
Runtime 1h 57m
Directors Bruce Beresford, Peter James
Producers Jane Scott, Troy Lum, Geng Ling, Sue MacKay
Writers Cunxin Li, Jan Sardi