

Mao’s Last Dancer
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2009-10-01 • 1h 57m
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.
- Directors
- Bruce Beresford
- Editors
- Mark Warner

Mao’s Last Dancer
Visit website2009-10-01 • 1h 57m
6.6/10 • 114
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.
- Directors
- Bruce Beresford
- Editors
- Mark Warner
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsChi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage
Wen Bin Huang
Li Cunxin - boy
Joan Chen
Niang
Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
Jack Thompson
US Federal Judge
Camilla Vergotis
Mary McKendry
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- Status
- Released
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $25,000,000.00
- Revenue
- $23,914,731.00
- Keywords
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