
Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
6.6
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Oct 01, 2009 (AU)
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Drama, Romance
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01:57
Budget: 25 000 000
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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.
Featured Crew
Director
Screenplay
Production Design
Director of Photography
Costume Design
Executive Producer
Art Direction
Editor
Producer
Music
Cast

Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult

Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage

Wen Bin Huang
Li Cunxin - boy

Joan Chen
Niang

Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson

Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey

Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster

Jack Thompson
US Federal Judge

Camilla Vergotis
Mary McKendry

Madeleine Eastoe
Lori