Mao’s Last Dancer

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

2009117m6.6 (125)
DramaRomance

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.

Crew

Bruce Beresford

Bruce Beresford

Director

JS

Jan Sardi

Screenplay

Jane Scott

Jane Scott

Producer

Peter James

Peter James

Director of Photography

Christopher Gordon

Christopher Gordon

Original Music Composer

Cast

Bruce Greenwood

Bruce Greenwood

Ben Stevenson

Kyle MacLachlan

Kyle MacLachlan

Charles Foster

Joan Chen

Joan Chen

Niang

Chi Cao

Chi Cao

Li Cunxin - adult

Amanda Schull

Amanda Schull

Elizabeth Mackey

Wang Shuangbao

Wang Shuangbao

Dia

Aden Young

Aden Young

Dilworth

Jack Thompson

Jack Thompson

Judge Woodrow Seals

Penne Hackforth-Jones

Penne Hackforth-Jones

Cynthia Dodds

CG

Chengwu Guo

Li Cunxin - teenage

WB

Wen Bin Huang

Li Cunxin - boy

ME

Madeleine Eastoe

Lori

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