Mao's Last Dancer – (2009)

posted by Admin, February 8, 2012 @ 8:52 pm

Movie: Mao's Last Dancer

Year: 2009

Also Known As: El último bailarín de Mao

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Genres: Biography | Drama | Music | Romance

Cast: Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Christopher Kirby, Suzie Steen, Madeleine Eastoe, Aden Young, Wen Bin Huang, Shu Guang Liang, Ye Wang…

Plot: A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. 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 fell 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.

Rated: 7.2/10 from 3,007 votes on IMDb

Release Date: (Australia)

Runtime: 117

Tagline: Before You Can Fly You Have To Be Free.

Countries: Australia

Directors: Bruce Beresford

Writers: Jan Sardi, Cunxin Li

Budget: N/A

Languages: English, Mandarin

Location: Acer Arena, Olympic Boulevard, Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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