Release Date
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Original Release
October 1, 2009
1h 57m
Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
⭐ 6.6117 min
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.
Director
Bruce Beresford
Department: Directing
⭐Popularity: 1.4
Cast
Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
⭐4.3
Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
⭐3.9
Joan Chen
Niang
⭐3.2
Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
⭐0.6
Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
⭐3.5
Wang Shuangbao
Dia
⭐1.3
Aden Young
Dilworth
⭐1.8
Jack Thompson
Judge Woodrow Seals
⭐1.7
Penne Hackforth-Jones
Cynthia Dodds
⭐0.7
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Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage
⭐0.4
Genres
DramaRomance
Production Companies
Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
