Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

• 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 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.

Rating

6.6 / 10 (126 votes)

Release date

October 1, 2009

Runtime

1h 57m

Language

English

Director

Bruce Beresford

Status

Released