Mao’s Last Dancer

10/01/2009

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1hr 57min

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Drama

,Romance

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Amanda Schull
  • Chi Cao
  • Chengwu Guo
  • Wen Bin Huang
  • Joan Chen

    Director

  • Bruce Beresford

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.

    Production Countries

  • Australia
  • China

LANGUAGES

  • Mandarin
  • English

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