Mao’s Last Dancer

Mao’s Last Dancer

2009-10-01 117 Min 6.6

Synopsis

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 falls 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.

Original Title

Mao’s Last Dancer

Director

Bruce Beresford
Amanda Schull
Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
Chi Cao
Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
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Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage
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Wen Bin Huang
Li Cunxin - boy
Joan Chen
Joan Chen
Niang
Bruce Greenwood
Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlan
Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
Jack Thompson
Jack Thompson
US Federal Judge
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Camilla Vergotis
Mary McKendry
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Madeleine Eastoe
Lori
Steven Heathcote
Steven Heathcote
Bobby Cordner
Aden Young
Aden Young
Dilworth

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