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Mao’s Last Dancer
2009
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I didn't realise this was based on a true story, and he now lives in my state in Australia. What a touching story. But I guess he kind of ruined it for any further exchange programs under Mao's reign. I'll have to watch it now. 😁👍

@jaggirl 20

Great MOVIE!! Based on a true story!

@FucU4ever 13

This was such a touching movie

@nemesisurvivorleon 9

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Mao’s Last Dancer
Mao’s Last Dancer

2009 · 1h 57m · Released

DramaRomance

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.

Director

Bruce Beresford

Cast

Amanda Schull

Amanda Schull

Elizabeth Mackey

Chi Cao

Chi Cao

Li Cunxin - adult

C

Chengwu Guo

Li Cunxin - teenage

W

Wen Bin Huang

Li Cunxin - boy

Joan Chen

Joan Chen

Niang

Bruce Greenwood

Bruce Greenwood

Ben Stevenson

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