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Mao’s Last Dancer

Mao’s Last Dancer

6.6 (125) ·2009 ·117 min ·Movie
Drama Romance

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.

Top Cast

Bruce Greenwood
Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlan
Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
Joan Chen
Joan Chen
Niang
Chi Cao
Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
Amanda Schull
Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
Wang Shuangbao
Wang Shuangbao
Dia
Aden Young
Aden Young
Dilworth
Jack Thompson
Jack Thompson
Judge Woodrow Seals
Penne Hackforth-Jones
Penne Hackforth-Jones
Cynthia Dodds
Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage

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