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Mao’s Last Dancer

Before you can fly, you have to be free.
Oct 1, 2009 · 1h 57m
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Romance

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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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CAST

Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
Joan Chen
Niang
Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
Wang Shuangbao
Dia
Aden Young
Dilworth
Jack Thompson
Judge Woodrow Seals
Directed by Bruce Beresford

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
$25,000,000
Revenue
$23,914,731
Production
Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
Country
CN, AU, US

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