Mao’s Last Dancer · 2009 ·
“Before you can fly, you have to be free.”
Movie Details
Production information
12 fields
Released
2009-10-01
Runtime
117 min
Genre
Drama, Romance
Director
Bruce Beresford
Writer
Jan Sardi, Cunxin Li
Country
Australia, China
Language
Mandarin, English
Status
Released
Budget
$25,000,000
Revenue
$23,914,731
Production
Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
Cast
Amanda Schull, Chi Cao, Chengwu Guo, Wen Bin Huang, Joan Chen, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Jack Thompson, Camilla Vergotis, Madeleine Eastoe
Storyline
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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