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Quick Info

Rating

6.6/10

Release2009

Runtime1h 57m

StatusReleased

Budget$25,000,000

Revenue$23,914,731

Production

Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.

Movie

Mao’s Last Dancer

2009

1h 57m

6.6

Drama

Romance

Synopsis

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.

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