Mao’s Last Dancer
Rating: 6.6 · 2009 · Drama, Romance · Australia, China · 1 ч 57 мин
Description
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.
Information
- Year
- 2009
- Genre
- Drama, Romance
- Country
- Australia, China
- Runtime
- 1 ч 57 мин
- TMDB
- 6.6
- IMDb
- 6.6
- Tagline
- Before you can fly, you have to be free.
Director
Cast
- Amanda Schull — Elizabeth Mackey
- Chi Cao — Li Cunxin - adult
- Chengwu Guo — Li Cunxin - teenage
- Wen Bin Huang — Li Cunxin - boy
- Joan Chen — Niang
- Bruce Greenwood — Ben Stevenson
- Kyle MacLachlan — Charles Foster
- Jack Thompson — US Federal Judge
- Camilla Vergotis — Mary McKendry
- Madeleine Eastoe — Lori
- Steven Heathcote — Bobby Cordner
- Aden Young — Dilworth
- Wang Shuangbao
- Barbara Bush — Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
- George H. W. Bush — Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Mao Zedong — Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Bruce Greenwood
- Kip Gamblin — David
- George Ellis — Houston Ballet Conductor