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    Mao's Last Dancer 2009 POSTER

    Mao's Last Dancer

    2009

    English

    7.3

    ♡ 10

    55%

    76%

    Action

    ballet dancer

    Biography

    dance

    dancer

    Drama

    Music

    promise

    rags to riches

    Romance

    village

    Bruce Beresford Bruce Beresford Director Bruce Greenwood Bruce Greenwood as Ben Stevenson Penne Hackforth-Jones Penne Hackforth-Jones as Cynthia Dodds Amanda Schull Amanda Schull as Elizabeth Nicholas Hammond Nicholas Hammond as TV Reporter
    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.
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