Mao’s Last Dancer
Mao’s Last Dancer
Release: 2009-10-01
·Runtime: 117m
·★ 6.6
Drama
Romance
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.
Production Countries
Australia
China
Production Companies
Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Bruce Greenwood
as Ben Stevenson,
Mao Zedong
as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Chi Cao
as Li Cunxin - adult
Jack Thompson
as US Federal Judge
Amanda Schull
as Elizabeth Mackey
Aden Young
as Dilworth
Barbara Bush
as Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
George H. W. Bush
as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Kip Gamblin
as David
Joan Chen
as Niang
Kyle MacLachlan
as Charles Foster
Wang Shuangbao
