Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
1h 57m
Running Time
October 1, 2009Release Date
Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
1h 57m
Running Time
October 1, 2009Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage
Chi Cao
Li - as an adult
Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
Joan Chen
Niang
Penne Hackforth-Jones
Cynthia Dodds
Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
Christopher Kirby
Mason
Suzie Steen
Betty Lou
Jack Thompson
US Federal Judge
Madeleine Eastoe
Lori
Camilla Vergotis
Mary McKendry
Aden Young
Dilworth
Wen Bin Huang
Li - as a child
Steven Heathcote
Bobby Cordner
Bruce Beresford
Director
Jan Sardi
Writer
Barbara Bush
Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cunxin Li
Writer
Jane Scott
Producer
George H. W. Bush
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mao Zedong
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Christopher Gordon
Composer
Peter James
Cinematographer
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 1, 2009
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 57m
Content RatingPG
Budget$25,000,000
Box Office$23,900,000
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
dancer
dance
ballet dancer
village
rags to riches
promise
ballet
communism
Wiki.
Mao's Last Dancer is a 2009 Australian film based on professional dancer Li Cunxin's 2003 autobiographical memoir of the same name. Li Cunxin is portrayed by Birmingham Royal Ballet Principal Dancer Chi Cao, Australian Ballet dancer Chengwu Guo and Huang Wen Bin. The film also stars Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen and Amanda Schull.
The film premiered on 13 September 2009, at the Toronto International Film Festival. General release in Australia and New Zealand began on 1 October 2009. It began screening in the United States on 33 screens in August 2010.
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