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Mao’s Last Dancer
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
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.
Where to watch
Amazon Prime Video
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Cast
Bruce GreenwoodBen Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlanCharles Foster
Joan ChenNiang
Chi CaoLi Cunxin - adult
Amanda SchullElizabeth Mackey
Wang ShuangbaoDia
Aden YoungDilworth
Jack ThompsonJudge Woodrow Seals
Penne Hackforth-JonesCynthia Dodds- Chengwu GuoLi Cunxin - teenage
- Wen Bin HuangLi Cunxin - boy
- Madeleine EastoeLori
- Camilla VergotisMary McKendry
Steven HeathcoteBobby Cordner
Details
- Director
- Bruce Beresford
- Writers
- Cunxin Li, Jan Sardi
- Release date
- October 1, 2009
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Budget
- $25M
- Box office
- $23.9M worldwide
- Original language
- English
- Studios
- Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
