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Mao’s Last Dancer

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

  • Movie
  • 2009
  • PG
  • 1h 57m

Directed by Bruce Beresford

6.6

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6.6 out of 10 from 126 votes

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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.

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Cast and crew

  • Bruce Greenwood

    Bruce GreenwoodBen Stevenson

  • Kyle MacLachlan

    Kyle MacLachlanCharles Foster

  • Joan Chen

    Joan ChenNiang

  • Chi Cao

    Chi CaoLi Cunxin - adult

  • Amanda Schull

    Amanda SchullElizabeth Mackey

  • Wang Shuangbao

    Wang ShuangbaoDia

  • Aden Young

    Aden YoungDilworth

  • Jack Thompson

    Jack ThompsonJudge Woodrow Seals

  • Penne Hackforth-Jones

    Penne Hackforth-JonesCynthia Dodds

  • Chengwu GuoLi Cunxin - teenage

  • Wen Bin HuangLi Cunxin - boy

  • Madeleine EastoeLori

  • Camilla VergotisMary McKendry

  • Steven Heathcote

    Steven HeathcoteBobby Cordner

  • Kip Gamblin

    Kip GamblinDavid

  • Christopher Kirby

    Christopher KirbyMason

  • Suzie Steen

    Suzie SteenBetty Lou

  • Yang LiCunmao - 19 yrs

Director
Bruce Beresford
Writer
Jan Sardi
Music
Christopher Gordon
Cinematography
Peter James