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Mao's Last Dancer

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

6.6 average rating
6.6
Mandarin / 117 MIN. / 2009

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Chi CaoChengwu GuoWen Bin HuangJoan ChenBruce GreenwoodAmanda SchullKyle MacLachlanJack ThompsonCamilla VergotisMadeleine EastoeSteven HeathcoteAden YoungWang ShuangbaoBarbara BushGeorge H. W. BushMao ZedongBruce GreenwoodKip Gamblin

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