Mao’s Last Dancer
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
2009-10-01 | 117 minutes
Plot 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.
Cast
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Amanda SchullElizabeth Mackey
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Chi CaoLi Cunxin - adult
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Joan ChenNiang
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Bruce GreenwoodBen Stevenson
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Kyle MacLachlanCharles Foster
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Jack ThompsonUS Federal Judge
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Aden YoungDilworth
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Wang Shuangbao
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Barbara BushHerself (archive footage) (uncredited)
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George H. W. BushHimself (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Mao ZedongHimself (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Bruce Greenwood
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Kip GamblinDavid
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