Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 2009-10-01
Runtime: 117 minutes
Director: Bruce Beresford
Budget: $25,000,000 USD
Revenue: $23,914,731 USD
Top Cast
- Amanda Schull as Elizabeth Mackey
- 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
- Kyle MacLachlan as Charles Foster
- Jack Thompson as US Federal Judge
- Camilla Vergotis as Mary McKendry
- Madeleine Eastoe as Lori
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Original Music Composer(s): N/A
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