Mao's Last Dancer

2009    1h 57m    PG
Drama, Romance,
7.356%76%66%
A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. 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.
Directed By
Bruce Beresford
Written By
Jan Sardi, Cunxin Li
Studio
Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
Cast of Mao's Last Dancer
  • Chi CaoLi Cunxin - adult
  • Chengwu GuoLi Cunxin - teenage
  • Wen Bin HuangLi Cunxin - boy
  • Joan ChenNiang
  • Bruce GreenwoodBen Stevenson
  • Amanda SchullElizabeth Mackey
  • Kyle MacLachlanCharles Foster
  • Jack ThompsonUS Federal Judge
  • Camilla VergotisMary McKendry
  • Madeleine EastoeLori
  • Steven HeathcoteBobby Cordner
  • Aden YoungDilworth
  • Wang Shuangbao
  • Barbara BushHerself (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • George H. W. BushHimself (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Mao ZedongHimself (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Kip GamblinDavid
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