| Record Number |
618112 |
| Title |
Mao's last dancer [DVD]. |
| Edition |
Widescreen, Letterbox [version]. |
| Publisher/Date |
[Pyrmont, N.S.W.] : Roadshow Entertainment [distributor], c2010. |
| Pagination etc. |
1 videodisc (DVD) (ca. 113 mins.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Contents note |
"R-110478-9." |
| Catalogued from container. |
| Based on the autobiography "Mao's last dancer" by Li Cunxin. |
| Originally released as a motion picture in 2009. |
| Includes bonus features: behind the scenes - the making of, photo gallery, deleted scenes, theatrical trailer. |
| Creation Note |
Directed by Bruce Beresford ; screenplay by Jan Sardi. |
| Performer note |
Chi Cao, Joan Chen, Kyle MacLachlan, Bruce Greenwood. |
| Summary Note |
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. |
| Target audience note |
Rating: PG. |
| Language note |
In English and Mandarin with English subtitles. English captions and audio description (feature only). |
| Subject - Name |
Li, Cunxin, -- 1961-Drama |
| Subject |
Ballet dancers -- China -- Biography |
| Defectors -- China -- Biography |
| Feature films |
| Added Author |
Li, Cunxin, 1961- Mao's last dancer. |
| Beresford, Bruce |
| Sardi, Jan |
| Cao, Chi |
| Chen, Joan, 1961- |
| MacLachlan, Kyle, 1959- |
| Greenwood, Bruce, 1956- |
| Shelf Location |
DVD F MAOS |
