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Mao’s Last Dancer

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

6.62009 · 1h 57m · PG
DramaRomance

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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Status
Released
Release date
October 1, 2009
Runtime
1h 57m
Budget
$25,000,000
Revenue
$23,914,731
Original language
EN

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