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Mao’s Last Dancer
2009, Oct 01
1h 57m
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.
Directed by
Bruce Beresford
Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
Joan Chen
Niang
Jack Thompson
US Federal Judge
Aden Young
Dilworth
George H. W. Bush
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mao Zedong
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Kip Gamblin
David
Wang Shuangbao
Barbara Bush
Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage
Camilla Vergotis
Mary McKendry
Madeleine Eastoe
Lori
Steven Heathcote
Bobby Cordner
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