Mao's Last Dancer 2009

Name: Mao's Last Dancer
Released: 2009-10-01
Cast: Chi Cao, Chengwu Guo, Wen Bin Huang, Joan Chen, Amanda Schull

Synopsis:

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.

Directed by:	Bruce Beresford
Written by:	Jan Sardi
Release date:	2009-10-01
Runtime:	117 minutes
Critics score:	55 / 100
Tagline:	Before you can fly, you have to be free.