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Mao’s Last Dancer

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

01 Oct 2009
  • Australia
  • China
117 mins
6.57
114 votes
  • Drama
  • Romance
articleOverview personCast
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.
  • Amanda Schull

    as Elizabeth Mackey
  • Chi Cao

    as Li Cunxin - adult
  • Chengwu Guo

    as Li Cunxin - teenage
  • Wen Bin Huang

    as Li Cunxin - boy
  • Joan Chen

    as Niang
  • Bruce Greenwood

    as Ben Stevenson
  • Kyle MacLachlan

    as Charles Foster
  • Jack Thompson

    as US Federal Judge
  • Camilla Vergotis

    as Mary McKendry
  • Madeleine Eastoe

    as Lori
  • Steven Heathcote

    as Bobby Cordner
  • Aden Young

    as Dilworth

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