Mao’s Last Dancer (2010)
| Director: | Bruce Beresford |
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| Starring: | Bruce Greenwood Kyle MacLachlan Chi Cao Amanda Schull Chengwu Guo |
| Year of release: | 2010 |
| Running time: | 113 Min. |
| Age restriction: | 13 pg |
| Category: | Dance Drama |
A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. 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.
Awards: 4 wins & 7 nominations
