Mao’s Last Dancer

Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

  • Genre: Drama, Romance
  • Release Date: 2009-10-01
  • User Rating: 6.6/10 from 126 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 57min
  • Language: 普通话
  • Production Company: Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
  • Production Country: Australia, China
  • Director: Bruce Beresford
star 6.6/10
From 126 Ratings
7.3

Summary

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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  • Bruce Greenwood

    as Ben Stevenson

  • Kyle MacLachlan

    as Charles Foster

  • Joan Chen

    as Niang

  • Chi Cao

    as Li Cunxin - adult

  • Amanda Schull

    as Elizabeth Mackey

  • Wang Shuangbao

    as Dia

  • Aden Young

    as Dilworth

  • Jack Thompson

    as Judge Woodrow Seals

  • Penne Hackforth-Jones

    as Cynthia Dodds

  • Chengwu Guo

    as Li Cunxin - teenage

  • Wen Bin Huang

    as Li Cunxin - boy

  • Madeleine Eastoe

    as Lori

  • Camilla Vergotis

    as Mary McKendry

  • Steven Heathcote

    as Bobby Cordner

  • Kip Gamblin

    as David

  • Christopher Kirby

    as Mason

  • Suzie Steen

    as Betty Lou

  • Yang Li

    as Cunmao - 19 yrs

  • Ferdinand Hoang

    as Consul Zhang

  • Xiguo Wu

    as Director Wang

  • Jiao Gang

    as Teacher Gao

  • Yue Xiuqing

    as Madame Official

  • Alice Parkinson

    as Assistant Stage Manager

  • Deni Hines

    as Anita Jones

  • Jon-Claire Lee

    as Vice Consul Lan

  • Robin Choi

    as Security Guard

  • Ron Lee

    as Security Guard

  • Cory Vi

    as Security Guard

  • Chan Cheuk-Fai

    as Security Guard

  • Gibson Nolte

    as China Desk Officer

  • Ted Maynard

    as Newsreader

  • Nicholas McKay

    as TV Reporter

  • Nicholas Hammond

    as TV Reporter

  • Leslie Bell

    as TV Presenter

  • Ian Meadows

    as WTC Backstage Manager

  • George Ellis

    as Houston Ballet Conductor

  • Jane Harders

    as Senator's Wife
Directing Bruce Beresford Director
Production Jane Scott Producer
Art Elaine Kusmishko Art Direction
Art Kerrie Brown Set Decoration
Costume & Make-Up Anna Borghesi Costume Design
Production Sue MacKay Line Producer
Production Geng Ling Co-Producer
Editing Mark Warner Editor
Art Herbert Pinter Production Design
Writing Jan Sardi Screenplay
Writing Cunxin Li Author
Camera Peter James Director of Photography
Costume & Make-Up Ziggy Golden Makeup & Hair
Costume & Make-Up Maree McDonald Hairstylist
Costume & Make-Up Xin Mu Makeup Artist
Production Troy Lum Executive Producer
Sound Christopher Gordon Original Music Composer

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