Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

• IMDb: 7.3/10 (8,149)
• 01 Oct 2009
• 117 mins
• PG

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.