Mao’s Last Dancer
Mao’s Last Dancer
6.6
123
Year
2009
Country
Australia, China
Genre
Drama, Romance
The slogan
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
Director
Bruce Beresford
Bruce Beresford
Director
Writer
Budget
25,000,000 $
Fees
23,914,731 $
Duration
1h 57min
Description
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.
