Chengwu Guo

Mao's Last Dancer (2009)

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bruce Beresford
CAST:  Chi Cao  •  Chengwu Guo  •  Wen Bin Huang  •  Joan Chen

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bruce Beresford
CAST:  Chi Cao  •  Chengwu Guo  •  Wen Bin Huang  •  Joan Chen