Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
Starring Chi Cao, Chengwu Guo, Wen Bin Huang
Directed by Bruce Beresford
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.
Runtime: 117 min.
Rating: 6.8
DVD
Languages: English,Mandarin
Countries: Australia
Genres: Drama,Romance
Keywords: dancer,dance,ballet dancer,village,rags to riches,promise,ballet,communism
Cast
Li Cunxin - adult
Li Cunxin - teenage
Li Cunxin - boy
Niang
Ben Stevenson
Elizabeth Mackey
Charles Foster
US Federal Judge
Mary McKendry
Lori
Bobby Cordner
Dilworth
Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
David