Mao’s Last Dancer
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
6.6
125 votes
2009
1h 57m
Drama
Romance
Overview
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.
Directed by Bruce Beresford
Top cast
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
Penne Hackforth-Jones
Cynthia DoddsC
Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenageW
Wen Bin Huang
Li Cunxin - boyM
Madeleine Eastoe
LoriC
Camilla Vergotis
Mary McKendry
Steven Heathcote
Bobby Cordner
Kip Gamblin
David
Christopher Kirby
Mason
Suzie Steen
Betty LouY
Yang Li
Cunmao - 19 yrs
Ferdinand Hoang
Consul ZhangX
Xiguo Wu
Director WangDetails
Status
Released
Release date
October 1, 2009
Budget
$25M
Revenue
$23.9M
Language
Mandarin, English
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