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Mao’s Last Dancer

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Mao’s Last Dancer — Plot

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.

  • Release date
  • October 1, 2009
  • Runtime
  • 117 min
  • Genres
  • Drama, Romance
  • Director
  • Bruce Beresford

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Mao’s Last Dancer — Cast

Bruce Greenwood photo Bruce Greenwood Ben Stevenson Kyle MacLachlan photo Kyle MacLachlan Charles Foster Joan Chen photo Joan Chen Niang Chi Cao photo Chi Cao Li Cunxin - adult Amanda Schull photo Amanda Schull Elizabeth Mackey Wang Shuangbao photo Wang Shuangbao Dia Aden Young photo Aden Young Dilworth Jack Thompson photo Jack Thompson Judge Woodrow Seals

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