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"最后的舞者". 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.
Movie rating: 7.3 / 10 (7160)
Directed by: Bruce Beresford
Writer credits: Jan Sardi - Cunxin Li
Cast: Chi Cao - Bruce Greenwood - Penne Hackforth-Jones - Christopher Kirby - Suzie Steen
AKA: El último bailarín de Mao