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Mao’s Last Dancer

10/01/2009

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1hr 57min

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Drama

,Romance

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Chi Cao
  • Chengwu Guo
  • Wen Bin Huang
  • Joan Chen
  • Bruce Greenwood

    Director

  • Bruce Beresford

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.

    Production Countries

  • Australia
  • China

LANGUAGES

  • Mandarin
  • English

Cast

Chi Cao

Li Cunxin - adult

Chengwu Guo

Li Cunxin - teenage

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

Steven Heathcote

Bobby Cordner

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