

Mao’s Last Dancer
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
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
- Budget
- $25M
- Box office
- $23.9M
- Language
- Mandarin
- dance
- dancer
- village
- ballet dancer
- rags to riches
- based on true story
- promise
- ballet
- communism
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG20 Aug 2010
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG1 Oct 2009
CanadaCA
- PremiereToronto International Film Festival13 Sept 2009
GermanyDE
- Theatrical63 Nov 2010
GreeceGR
- TheatricalΚ19 Jan 2012
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical1217 Jun 2010
New ZealandNZ
- TheatricalPG4 Mar 2010
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Mao’s Last Dancer was released on 1 October 2009.
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