Mao’s Last Dancer
2009 · 117 min
Drama · Romance
★ 6.6Trailer
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.
Crew
- Director Bruce Beresford
- Screenplay Jan Sardi
- Director of Photography Peter James
Cast
Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
Joan Chen
Niang
Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
Wang Shuangbao
Dia
Aden Young
Dilworth
Jack Thompson
Judge Woodrow Seals
Penne Hackforth-Jones
Cynthia Dodds
- C
Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage
- W
Wen Bin Huang
Li Cunxin - boy
- M
Madeleine Eastoe
Lori
Crew
- Director — Bruce Beresford
- Screenplay — Jan Sardi
- Director of Photography — Peter James
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