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Mao’s Last Dancer

66 %|Oct 1, 2009|Drama, Romance

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 fell 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.

Featured Crew

Bruce Beresford
Director
Jane Scott
Producer
Elaine Kusmishko
Art Direction
Kerrie Brown
Set Decoration
Anna Borghesi
Costume Design
Sue MacKay
Line Producer
Geng Ling
Co-Producer
Christopher Gordon
Music

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Cast

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Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
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Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage
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Wen Bin Huang
Li Cunxin - boy
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Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
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Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
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Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
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Jack Thompson
US Federal Judge
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Camilla Vergotis
Mary McKendry
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Steven Heathcote
Bobby Cordner
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Aden Young
Dilworth
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Barbara Bush
Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
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George H. W. Bush
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Mao Zedong
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)