Australia, Drama, 117 min
Original Title: Mao's Last Dancer
Countries: Australia
Styles: Drama
Duration (min): 117
Directors: Bruce Beresford
Screenwriters: Jan Sardi (Memoir: Cunxin Li
Actors: Alice Parkinson, Amanda Schull, Bruce Greenwood, Chi Cao, Joan Chen, Kyle MacLachlan
Synopsis: A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. 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.