Mao’s Last Dancer
2009
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
- Bruce Beresford
- 1h 57m
- October 1, 2009 · Australia, China
Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 1, 2009
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- Chinese, English
- Countries
- Australia, China
- Production
- Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
- Cast
- Bruce Greenwood,Kyle MacLachlan,Joan Chen,Chi Cao,Amanda Schull,Wang Shuangbao,Aden Young,Jack Thompson,Penne Hackforth-Jones,Chengwu Guoand 27 more
- Director
- Bruce Beresford
- Producer
- Troy Lum,Jane Scott
- Cinematography
- Peter James
- Music
- Christopher Gordon
- Budget
- $25,000,000
- Revenue
- $23,914,731
- IMDb
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