Mao’s Last Dancer

Name: Mao’s Last Dancer
Released: 2009-10-01
Rating: 6.6

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

6.6 (123) 1h 57m 2009DramaRomance

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

Budget

$25,000,000

Revenue

$23,914,731

Release Date

October 1, 2009

Popularity

Director

Bruce Beresford