Mao's Last Dancer

August. 20,2010      PG
Rating:
7.3
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Chi Cao as  Li Cunxin - adult
Joan Chen as  Niang
Amanda Schull as  Elizabeth Mackey
Kyle MacLachlan as  Charles Foster
Jack Thompson as  US Federal Judge
Aden Young as  Dilworth
Barbara Bush as  Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
George H. W. Bush as  Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mao Zedong as  Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

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