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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.
Release Date: 2009-10-01
6.6/10
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- Country: AU, CN
- Language: 普通话 | English
- Runtime: 117
- Budget: $25,000,000
- Revenue: $23,900,000
Niang
Dilworth
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charles Foster
Li Cunxin - adult
Elizabeth Mackey
US Federal Judge
Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
David
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