Mao’s Last Dancer
Mao’s Last Dancer

Mao’s Last Dancer

6.5

1 hr 57 min

2009-10-01

120

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.

Drama

Romance

Trailers

Characters

Amanda Schull

Amanda Schull

Elizabeth Mackey

Chi Cao

Chi Cao

Li Cunxin - adult

Chengwu Guo

Chengwu Guo

Li Cunxin - teenage

Wen Bin Huang

Wen Bin Huang

Li Cunxin - boy

Joan Chen

Joan Chen

Niang

Bruce Greenwood

Bruce Greenwood

Ben Stevenson

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