Mao's Last DancerMark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | drama, melodrama, biography, music |
Year | 2009 |
Country | Australia |
Premiere | |
Box | in world | $22 269 123 | USA | $4 817 770 | In other countries | $17 451 353 |
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Duration | PT9M |
Storyline
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.