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Mao's Last Dancer
Release Date: October 01, 2009
Year | : | 2009 |
Slogan | : | «Before you can fly, you have to be free.» |
Genres | : | Drama, Romance |
Production Companies | : | Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd. |
Director | : | Bruce Beresford |
Producers | : | Jane Scott, Sue MacKay, Troy Lum, Geng Ling |
Writers | : | Jan Sardi, Cunxin Li |
RunTime | : | 117 mins. |
Budget | : | 25000000 |
Revenue | : | 23914731 |
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 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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