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Mao’s Last Dancer(2009)
Status: Released
Date: 2009-10-01
66%
118 Votes
Time: 1h 57m
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
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.
Languages: Mandarin, English.
Countries:
Australia,
China
Budget: $25,000,000.00
Revenue: $23,914,731.00
ProductionCompanies:
Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
Movie: Mao’s Last Dancer
Top 10 Billed Cast
Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
Joan Chen
Niang
Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
Jack Thompson
US Federal Judge
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