Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

Run Time: 1h57m | Release: 01 Oct 2009

Budget: $25,000,000.00

Revenue: $23,900,000.00

Production Countries: Australia, China

6.6 / 10111 Vote Count

Overview:

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.