Mao’s Last Dancer
Mao’s Last Dancer
PG
6.6
·

2009

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117m

Mao’s Last Dancer

Summary

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.

Director

Bruce Beresford

Author

Cunxin Li

Screenplay

Jan Sardi

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Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$25,000,000.00

Revenue:

$23,914,731.00

Keywords

dance
dancer
village
ballet dancer
rags to riches
promise
ballet
communism