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Mao’s Last Dancer

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Romance

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.

Date: 10/01/2009

Rating: 6.6

Cast: Chi Cao, Chengwu Guo, Wen Bin Huang, Joan Chen, Bruce Greenwood, Amanda Schull, Kyle MacLachlan, Jack Thompson, Camilla Vergotis, Madeleine Eastoe, Steven Heathcote, Aden Young, Wang Shuangbao, Barbara Bush, George H. W. Bush, Mao Zedong, Bruce Greenwood, Kip Gamblin

Chi Cao