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Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
Directed by Bruce Beresford
“Before you can fly, you have to be free.”
Drama, Romance · 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 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.
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
C
Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage
W
Wen Bin Huang
Li Cunxin - boy
M
Madeleine Eastoe
Lori
Crew
- Director
- Bruce Beresford
- Screenplay
- Jan Sardi
- Director of Photography
- Peter James
- Original Music Composer
- Christopher Gordon
- Editor
- Mark Warner
- Producer
- Jane Scott
Details
- Release date
- 2009-10-01
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Mandarin, English
- Countries
- Australia, China
- Production
- Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
- Budget
- $25,000,000
- Box office
- $23,914,731