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Before you can fly, you have to be free. - Mao’s Last Dancer
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Title: Mao’s Last Dancer

Release Date: 1 Oct 2009

Runtime: 1h 57m

Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.

Production Companies: Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.

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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.6 (113 votes)

Cast

  • Li Cunxin - adult: Chi Cao
  • Li Cunxin - teenage: Chengwu Guo
  • Li Cunxin - boy: Wen Bin Huang
  • Niang: Joan Chen
  • Ben Stevenson: Bruce Greenwood
  • Elizabeth Mackey: Amanda Schull
  • Charles Foster: Kyle MacLachlan
  • US Federal Judge: Jack Thompson
  • Mary McKendry: Camilla Vergotis
  • Lori: Madeleine Eastoe
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