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Mao’s Last Dancer

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

2009★ 6.6 · 1231h 57mDramaRomance

Overview

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.

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Trailer · Mao's Last Dancer - Official HD Trailer by Bruce Beresford

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Cast

Bruce Greenwood
as Ben Stevenson

Amanda Schull
as Elizabeth Mackey

Kyle MacLachlan
as Charles Foster

岳秀清
as Madame Official

Joan Chen
as Niang

Nicholas Hammond
as TV Reporter

Aden Young
as Dilworth

王双宝
as Dia

Jack Thompson
as Judge Woodrow Seals

Christopher Kirby
as Mason

Jiao Gang
as Teacher Gao

Alice Parkinson
as Assistant Stage Manager

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Release date: 2009-10-01

Budget: $25,000,000

Revenue: $23,914,731

Runtime: 1h 57m

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DramaRomance

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