IMDb
Original Title
Mao’s Last Dancer
Status
Released
Production Companies
Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
Original Language
EN
Budget
$25,000,000
Revenue
$23,914,731
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.
Director
Bruce Beresford
Production Countries
Australia, China
Spoken Languages
Mandarin, English
