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 falls 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.
Director:
Bruce Beresford
Writers:
Jan Sardi, Cunxin Li
Awards:
7 wins & 20 nominations total
Production:
Bruce Beresford
Country:
Australia
