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Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

6.6 | Oct 01, 2009 (AU) | Drama, Romance | 01:57
Budget: 25 000 000 | Revenue: 23 914 731

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

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.

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Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
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Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage
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Wen Bin Huang
Li Cunxin - boy
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Joan Chen
Niang
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Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
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Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
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Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
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Jack Thompson
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Camilla Vergotis
Mary McKendry