7.5 Million Dollars in two weeks at the Australian Box Office!

MAO’S LAST DANCER by Bruce Beresford scored the biggest Australian film opening for 2009 and the 5th biggest ever!

A drama based on the autobiography by
Li Cunxin. 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 fell 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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• Director: Bruce Beresfor

• Genre: Drama

• Starring: Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood , Kyle MacLachlan