Mao's Last Dancer (2009)

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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.

Directed by Bruce Beresford.

© Samuel Goldwyn Films 2013

Released in 2009 by Samuel Goldwyn Films.

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