Mao’s Last Dancer

Name: Mao’s Last Dancer
Released: 2009-10-01
Rating: 6.6

2009

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

Trailer

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.

Release Date

2009-10-01

Status

Released

Original Title

Mao’s Last Dancer

Runtime

1h 57m

Budget

$25,000,000

Revenue

$23,914,731

Original Language

EN

Production Countries

Australia, China

Production Companies

Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.

Overview

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.

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