Mao’s Last Dancer
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
2009 en 117 minutes
Rating: 6.6
Plot
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.
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Cast
Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
Joan Chen
Niang
Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
Wang Shuangbao
Dia
Aden Young
Dilworth
Jack Thompson
Judge Woodrow Seals
Penne Hackforth-Jones
Cynthia Dodds
Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage
Wen Bin Huang
Li Cunxin - boy
Madeleine Eastoe
Lori
Camilla Vergotis
Mary McKendry
Steven Heathcote
Bobby Cordner
Kip Gamblin
David
Christopher Kirby
Mason
Suzie Steen
Betty Lou
Yang Li
Cunmao - 19 yrs
Ferdinand Hoang
Consul Zhang
Xiguo Wu
Director Wang
Jiao Gang
Teacher Gao
Yue Xiuqing
Madame Official
Alice Parkinson
Assistant Stage Manager
Deni Hines
Anita Jones
Jon-Claire Lee
Vice Consul Lan
Robin Choi
Security Guard
Ron Lee
Security Guard
Cory Vi
Security Guard
Chan Cheuk-Fai
Security Guard
Gibson Nolte
China Desk Officer
Ted Maynard
Newsreader
Nicholas McKay
TV Reporter
Nicholas Hammond
TV Reporter
Leslie Bell
TV Presenter
Ian Meadows
WTC Backstage Manager
George Ellis
Houston Ballet Conductor
Jane Harders
Senator's Wife
