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Mao’s Last Dancer

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

★ 6.6 (117 votes) | 2009 | 1h 57m
DramaRomance
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
  • Budget $25,000,000
  • Revenue $23,914,731
  • Production Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.

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