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Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
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- 117min
- "Before you can fly, you have to be free."
- Budget:$25,000,000
- Revenue:$23,914,731
- Release:10/1/2009
- Genres:Drama | Romance
- Original language:English
- Spoken languages:Mandarin | English
- Countries:China | Australia | US
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.
Production companies:
Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
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