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Mao’s Last Dancer

“Before you can fly, you have to be free.”

★ 6.6 TMDB Rating · 125 votes

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.

Director
Bruce Beresford
Release date
Oct 1, 2009
Original language
English
Origin
China, Australia, United States

Cast of Mao’s Last Dancer

  • Portrait of Bruce Greenwood

    Bruce Greenwood

    Ben Stevenson

  • Portrait of Kyle MacLachlan

    Kyle MacLachlan

    Charles Foster

  • Portrait of Joan Chen

    Joan Chen

    Niang

  • Portrait of Chi Cao

    Chi Cao

    Li Cunxin - adult

  • Portrait of Amanda Schull

    Amanda Schull

    Elizabeth Mackey

  • Portrait of Wang Shuangbao

    Wang Shuangbao

    Dia

  • Portrait of Aden Young

    Aden Young

    Dilworth

  • Portrait of Jack Thompson

    Jack Thompson

    Judge Woodrow Seals

  • Portrait of Penne Hackforth-Jones

    Penne Hackforth-Jones

    Cynthia Dodds

  • Chengwu Guo

    Li Cunxin - teenage

  • Wen Bin Huang

    Li Cunxin - boy

  • Madeleine Eastoe

    Lori

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