Oct 01, 2009
117 min
Full-HD

Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

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.

Category

Drama Romance

Country

Australia China

Companies

Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.

Bruce Greenwood

Ben Stevenson

Kyle MacLachlan

Charles Foster

Joan Chen

Niang

Chi Cao

Li Cunxin - adult

Amanda Schull

Elizabeth Mackey

Wang Shuangbao

Dia

Aden Young

Dilworth

Jack Thompson

Judge Woodrow Seals

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