Mao’s Last Dancer

Name: Mao’s Last Dancer
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 2009
Duration: 1 h 57 min

2009

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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.

Released: 1 Oct 2009
Runtime: 117 min
Also known as: O Último Dançarino de Mao, El último bailarín de Mao, L'últim ballarí de Mao, 末代舞者
Country: China
Language: English
Budget: $25.0M
Screenplay: Jan Sardi
Cinematography: Peter James
Music: Christopher Gordon
Editor: Mark Warner
Elsewhere: TMDB