Mao’s Last Dancer
Film2009117 min6.6/10 on TMDB
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Directed by Bruce Beresford
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
The 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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Bruce GreenwoodBen Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlanCharles Foster
Joan ChenNiang
Chi CaoLi Cunxin - adult
Amanda SchullElizabeth Mackey
Wang Shuangbao
Aden YoungDilworth
Jack ThompsonJudge Woodrow Seals
Penne Hackforth-JonesCynthia DoddsChengwu Guo
Chengwu GuoLi Cunxin - teenageWen Bin Huang
Wen Bin HuangLi Cunxin - boyExplore the crew
- Director
- Bruce Beresford
- Screenplay
- Jan Sardi
- Producer
- Jane Scott
- Director of Photography
- Peter James
- Editor
- Mark Warner
- Original Music Composer
- Christopher Gordon