Mao’s Last Dancer

Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

  • Genre: Drama, Romance
  • Release Date: 2009-10-01
  • User Rating: 6.6/10 from 113 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 57min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
  • Production Country: Australia, China
  • Director: Bruce Beresford
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Summary

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 fell 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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  • Chi Cao

    as Li Cunxin - adult

  • Chengwu Guo

    as Li Cunxin - teenage

  • Wen Bin Huang

    as Li Cunxin - boy

  • Joan Chen

    as Niang

  • Bruce Greenwood

    as Ben Stevenson

  • Amanda Schull

    as Elizabeth Mackey

  • Kyle MacLachlan

    as Charles Foster

  • Jack Thompson

    as US Federal Judge

  • Camilla Vergotis

    as Mary McKendry

  • Madeleine Eastoe

    as Lori

  • Steven Heathcote

    as Bobby Cordner

  • Aden Young

    as Dilworth

  • Wang Shuangbao

    as

  • Barbara Bush

    as Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • George H. W. Bush

    as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Mao Zedong

    as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Bruce Greenwood

    as

  • Kip Gamblin

    as David
Directing Bruce Beresford Director
Production Jane Scott Producer
Art Elaine Kusmishko Art Direction
Art Kerrie Brown Set Decoration
Costume & Make-Up Anna Borghesi Costume Design
Production Sue MacKay Line Producer
Production Geng Ling Co-Producer
Sound Christopher Gordon Music
Editing Mark Warner Editor
Art Herbert Pinter Production Design
Writing Jan Sardi Screenplay
Writing Cunxin Li Author
Camera Peter James Director of Photography
Costume & Make-Up Ziggy Golden Makeup & Hair
Costume & Make-Up Maree McDonald Hairstylist
Costume & Make-Up Xin Mu Makeup Artist
Production Troy Lum Executive Producer

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