

Mao’s Last Dancer (2010)
- PG
- 08/20/2010 (US)
- Drama, Romance
- 1h 57m
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
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.
Bruce Beresford
DirectorJan Sardi
ScreenplayCast

Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adultChengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenageWen Bin Huang
Li Cunxin - boy
Joan Chen
Niang
Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster