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Mao’s Last Dancer

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

6.6(126)20091h 57m2

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

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Writers

Jan Sardi

Produced in

Australia, China

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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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