Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
Run Time: 1h57m | Release: 01 Oct 2009
Budget: $25,000,000.00
Revenue: $23,900,000.00
Production Countries: Australia, China
6.6 / 10113 Vote Count
Overview:
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 fell 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.
Cast Of - Mao’s Last Dancer
Crew Members
Li Cunxin - adult
Li Cunxin - teenage
Li Cunxin - boy
Niang
Ben Stevenson
Elizabeth Mackey
Charles Foster
US Federal Judge
Mary McKendry
Lori