Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
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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.
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Chi CaoLi Cunxin - adultChengwu GuoLi Cunxin - teenageWen Bin HuangLi Cunxin - boy
Joan ChenNiang
Bruce GreenwoodBen Stevenson
Amanda SchullElizabeth Mackey
Kyle MacLachlanCharles Foster
Jack ThompsonUS Federal JudgeCamilla VergotisMary McKendryMadeleine EastoeLoriSteven HeathcoteBobby Cordner
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What is Mao's Last Dancer about?
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.
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Mao's Last Dancer has a runtime of 117 minutes.
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