Mao’s Last Dancer(2009)

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.

Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Bruce Beresford

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

Release date: 2009-10-01

Country of origin: Australia, People's Republic of China

Length: 1h 57m

Ratings:

• 7.3/10
• 55%
• 55/100