Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

ALL 10/01/2009 (en) Drama, Romance 117 Min
  • Release
    10/01/2009
  • Production
    Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
  • Rotten tomato
    66%
  • Original title
    Mao’s Last Dancer
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 23,900,000.00
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Before you can fly, you have to be free.

Overview

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.

  1. Bruce Beresford

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Mark Warner

    Editor

  4. Jane Scott

    Producer



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Casts

  1. Chi Cao

    Li Cunxin - adult

  2. Chengwu Guo

    Li Cunxin - teenage

  3. Wen Bin Huang

    Li Cunxin - boy

  4. Joan Chen

    Niang

  5. Bruce Greenwood

    Ben Stevenson

  6. Amanda Schull

    Elizabeth Mackey

  7. Kyle MacLachlan

    Charles Foster

  8. Jack Thompson

    US Federal Judge

  9. Camilla Vergotis

    Mary McKendry

  10. Madeleine Eastoe

    Lori

  11. Steven Heathcote

    Bobby Cordner

  12. Aden Young

    Dilworth

  13. Wang Shuangbao

  14. Barbara Bush

    Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)

  15. George H. W. Bush

    Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

  16. Mao Zedong

    Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

  17. Bruce Greenwood

  18. Kip Gamblin

    David

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 18 , Crews : 17

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Mao’s Last Dancer (2009) 117 Min

ALL 10/01/2009 (en)
Drama, Romance
  • Release 10/01/2009
  • Production
    Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
  • Original title Mao’s Last Dancer
  • en
  • Revenue23,900,000.00

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

Overview

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.

  1. Bruce Beresford

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Mark Warner

    Editor

  4. Jane Scott

    Producer