Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
Drama, Romance1 hour and 57 minutes
66%
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
Description
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.
Actors
Status
Released
Original language
English
Budget
$25,000,000
Revenue
$23,900,000
Keywords
dancedancervillageballet dancerrags to richespromiseballetcommunism