Mao’s Last Dancer
(2009)
★ 6.6 IMDb · 125 votes
Year: 2009
Runtime: 117 мин
Country: Australia, China
Director: Брюс Бересфорд
Cast: Брюс Гринвуд, Кайл МакЛахлен, Джоан Чэнь, Chi Cao, Аманда Шулл, Ван Шуан Бао, Aden Young, Джек Томпсон, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Chengwu Guo
Plot
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.