Mao’s Last Dancer
HD 01/10/2009 · () · 1h 57m
3.29 / 5 points
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"Before you can fly, you have to be free."
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.
Bruce Beresford
Director
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Amanda Schull
/ Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
Chi Cao
/ Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
Chengwu Guo
/ Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage
Wen Bin Huang
/ Wen Bin Huang
Li Cunxin - boy
Joan Chen
/ Joan Chen
Niang
Bruce Greenwood
/ Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlan
/ Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
Jack Thompson
/ Jack Thompson
US Federal Judge
Camilla Vergotis
/ Camilla Vergotis
Mary McKendry
Madeleine Eastoe
/ Madeleine Eastoe
Lori
Steven Heathcote
/ Steven Heathcote
Bobby Cordner
Aden Young
/ Aden Young
Dilworth
Wang Shuangbao
/ Wang Shuangbao
Barbara Bush
/ Barbara Bush
Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
George H. W. Bush
/ George H. W. Bush
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mao Zedong
/ Mao Zedong
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bruce Greenwood
/ Bruce Greenwood
Kip Gamblin
/ Kip Gamblin
David
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