Mao’s Last Dancer
Drama | Romance
6.6
Release Date
October 1, 2009
Duration
117 min
Status
Released
Language
en
Overview
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.
Casts
Li Cunxin - adult
Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - teenage
Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - boy
Wen Bin Huang
Niang
Joan Chen
Ben Stevenson
Bruce Greenwood
Elizabeth Mackey
Amanda Schull
Charles Foster
Kyle MacLachlan
US Federal Judge
Jack Thompson
Mary McKendry
Camilla Vergotis
Lori
Madeleine Eastoe
Bobby Cordner
Steven Heathcote
Dilworth
Aden Young
Wang Shuangbao
Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Barbara Bush
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
George H. W. Bush
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mao Zedong
Bruce Greenwood
David
Kip Gamblin
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