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Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

PG 117 minutes EN Drama , Romance
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 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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Cast

Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage
Wen Bin Huang
Li Cunxin - boy
Joan Chen
Niang
Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
Jack Thompson
US Federal Judge
Camilla Vergotis
Mary McKendry
Steven Heathcote
Bobby Cordner
Aden Young
Dilworth
Barbara Bush
Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
George H. W. Bush
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mao Zedong
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Crew

Elaine Kusmishko
Art Direction
Peter James
Director of Photography
Kerrie Brown
Set Decoration
Mark Warner
Editor
Ziggy Golden
Makeup & Hair
Maree McDonald
Hairstylist
Xin Mu
Makeup Artist
Herbert Pinter
Production Design
Troy Lum
Executive Producer
Sue MacKay
Line Producer
Geng Ling
Co-Producer
Jane Scott
Producer
Cunxin Li
Author
Jan Sardi
Screenplay