The Dancer Upstairs

The Dancer Upstairs

The Dancer Upstairs is a 1995 novel by Nicholas Shakespeare. It is based on the Maoist insurgency of the 1980s in Peru, and tells the story of Agustin Rejas, a police Lieutenant (later promoted to Captain), hunting a terrorist based on Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path. In 2002 it was given a film adaptation under the same title.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Production: Fox Searchlight Pictures
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
64%
R
Year:
2002
132
£2,400,000
Website
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