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

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