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Mao’s Last Dancer

Mao’s Last Dancer

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Mao’s Last Dancer

"Before you can fly, you have to be free."

2009
1h 57m
6.6(114 votes)
Drama
Romance

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 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.

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18 members
Acting

Amanda Schull

Elizabeth Mackey

Amanda Schull
Acting

Chi Cao

Li Cunxin - adult

Chi Cao
Acting

Chengwu Guo

Li Cunxin - teenage

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Directing

Wen Bin Huang

Li Cunxin - boy

No Image
Acting

Joan Chen

Niang

Joan Chen
Acting

Bruce Greenwood

Ben Stevenson

Bruce Greenwood
Acting

Kyle MacLachlan

Charles Foster

Kyle MacLachlan
Acting

Jack Thompson

US Federal Judge

Jack Thompson
Acting

Camilla Vergotis

Mary McKendry

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Acting

Madeleine Eastoe

Lori

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Acting

Steven Heathcote

Bobby Cordner

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Aden Young

Dilworth

Aden Young
Acting

Wang Shuangbao

Unknown Role

Wang Shuangbao
Acting

Barbara Bush

Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Barbara Bush
Acting

George H. W. Bush

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

George H. W. Bush
Acting

Mao Zedong

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mao Zedong
Acting

Bruce Greenwood

Unknown Role

Bruce Greenwood
Acting

Kip Gamblin

David

Kip Gamblin

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