Mao's Last Dancer (2009)

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.

Crew: Bruce Beresford

Cast: Chi Cao, Chengwu Guo, Wen Bin Huang, Joan Chen, Bruce Greenwood

Format: DVD

Genre: Drama, Romance

Rating: PG

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