Drama ·Romance · Australia · 2009 · 1h 57m

Mao’s Last Dancer

Director

Cast

Amanda Schull as Elizabeth Mackey Chi Cao as Li Cunxin - adult Chengwu Guo as Li Cunxin - teenage Wen Bin Huang as Li Cunxin - boy Joan Chen as Niang Bruce Greenwood as Ben Stevenson

Crew

Peter James — Director of Photography Mark Warner — Editor Jan Sardi — Screenplay Jane Scott — Producer Herbert Pinter — Production Design Anna Borghesi — Costume Design

Tagline

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

Synopsis

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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