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Mao's Last Dancer - Georgina Community Film Circuit

Date: Wed 23rd Feb 2011
Time: From 7:00pm

Details:
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. 

Director: Bruce Beresford
Cast: Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen
Year: 2009
Runtime: 117 minutes
Country: Australia
Language: English, Mandarin
Distributor: Mongrel Media

City: Georgina, Ontario
Circuit Group Name: Georgina Community Film Circuit
Circuit Start-up: 2010
Contact: Phil Rose-Donahoe
Phone: 905.476.4305
Email: prosedonahoe@georgina.ca
Website: www.stephenleacocktheatre.ca
Screens: 19:00:00, Stephen Leacock Theatre