Mao’s Last Dancer
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
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.
Crew and Cast
Bruce BeresfordDirector
Bruce GreenwoodBen Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlanCharles Foster
Joan ChenNiang
Chi CaoLi Cunxin · adult
Amanda SchullElizabeth Mackey
Wang ShuangbaoDia
Aden YoungDilworth
Jack ThompsonJudge Woodrow Seals
Penne Hackforth-JonesCynthia DoddsChengwu GuoLi Cunxin · teenage
Wen Bin HuangLi Cunxin · boy
Madeleine EastoeLori
Camilla VergotisMary McKendry
Steven HeathcoteBobby Cordner
Kip GamblinDavid
Christopher KirbyMason
Suzie SteenBetty LouYang LiCunmao · 19 yrs
Ferdinand HoangConsul ZhangXiguo WuDirector Wang
Jiao GangTeacher Gao
Yue XiuqingMadame Official
Alice ParkinsonAssistant Stage Manager
Deni HinesAnita JonesJon-Claire LeeVice Consul Lan
Robin ChoiSecurity Guard
Ron LeeSecurity Guard
Cory ViSecurity Guard
Chan Cheuk-FaiSecurity Guard
Gibson NolteChina Desk Officer
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Info
- Status
- Released
- Released
- 1 October 2009
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Rating
- PG
- TMDB score
- 6.6 / 10 (126 votes)
Production
- Director
- Bruce Beresford
- Writers
- Jan Sardi
- Studios
- Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd.
- Countries
- Australia, China
Box Office
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Revenue
- $23.9M
- Profit
- $1.1M loss
- Return
- 1.0×
Languages
- Original
- English
- Spoken
- Mandarin, English