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.
Chi Cao
Li Cunxin - adult
Chengwu Guo
Li Cunxin - teenage
Wen Bin Huang
Li Cunxin - boy
Joan Chen
Niang
Penne Hackforth-Jones
Cynthia Dodds
Amanda Schull
Elizabeth Mackey
Christopher Kirby
Mason
Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
Suzie Steen
Betty Lou
Jack Thompson
US Federal Judge
Camilla Vergotis
Mary McKendry
Madeleine Eastoe
Lori
Steven Heathcote
Bobby Cordner
Aden Young
Dilworth
Barbara Bush
Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
George H. W. Bush
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mao Zedong
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bruce Beresford
Director
Kip Gamblin
David
Jane Scott
Producer
Elaine Kusmishko
Art Direction
Kerrie Brown
Set Decoration
Anna Borghesi
Costume Design
Sue MacKay
Line Producer
Geng Ling
Co-Producer
Christopher Gordon
Music
Mark Warner
Editor
Herbert Pinter
Production Design
Jan Sardi
Screenplay
Cunxin Li
Author
Peter James
Director of Photography
Ziggy Golden
Makeup & Hair
Maree McDonald
Hairstylist
Xin Mu
Makeup Artist
Troy Lum
Executive Producer
Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
Wang Shuangbao
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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