Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
6.6124 votesPGHD1h 57mReleased
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
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.
- Released
- Oct 1, 2009
- Director
- Bruce Beresford
- Writer
- Jan Sardi
- Studio
- Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
- Language
- Mandarin, English
- Budget
- $25,000,000
- Revenue
- $23,914,731
