IMDb: 7.5
2006
Little Children
Drama, Romance
Mao’s Last Dancer
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.
Director: Bruce Beresford
Genre: Drama, Romance
Cast: Amanda Schull, Chi Cao, Chengwu Guo, Wen Bin Huang, Joan Chen, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Jack Thompson, Camilla Vergotis, Madeleine Eastoe
