MAO'S LAST DANCER Movie Trailer & Pictures
Check out the trailer and a couple of pictures for MAO'S LAST DANCER starring Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen, Chi Cao, Amanda Schull, and directed by Bruce Beresford.
Mao's Last Dancer is part of the Special Presentations lineup at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
Mao's Last Dancer Synopsis: Born in 1961, Li lived with his six brothers and impoverished parents in China's Shandong Province. His family was destined to be labourers, but when recruiters from Madame Mao's ballet academy in Beijing swept through his single-room school in search of untapped talent to mould into the future leading lights of the Cultural Revolution, eleven-year-old Li was selected, and committed to a strange new life of stringent training, both artistic and ideological. At first, the experience overwhelmed, but when an audacious teacher introduced him to the works of great international performers (via concealed videotapes, no less), Li (excellently played as a young [...]
