Mao's Last Dancer
Streaming video - 2009
An award-winning Australian 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.. Winner of Best Foreign Film at the São Paulo International Film Festival.. "Lovely and astounding, Mao's Last Dancer is a modern epic of art and ambition triumphing oppression." - Tom Long, Detroit News. "Mao's Last Dancer is a masterpiece." - Rex Reed, New ...York Observer
- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
- Published
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Samuel Goldwyn Films
2009.
2018. - Language
- English
- Online Access
- A Kanopy streaming video
Cover Image - Item Description
- Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record. - Physical Description
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (119 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Playing Time
- 01:58:36
- Format
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Access
- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).