Mao's Last Dancer
(2009)

Before you can fly, you have to be free.

Released: 2009-10-01

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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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Chi Cao

as Li Cunxin - adult

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Chengwu Guo

as Li Cunxin - teenage

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Wen Bin Huang

as Li Cunxin - boy

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Bruce Greenwood

as Ben Stevenson

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Amanda Schull

as Elizabeth Mackey

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Kyle MacLachlan

as Charles Foster

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Jack Thompson

as US Federal Judge

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Steven Heathcote

as Bobby Cordner

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Aden Young

as Dilworth

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Barbara Bush

as Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)

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George H. W. Bush

as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Mao Zedong

as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Troy Lum

Executive Producer

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Sue MacKay

Line Producer

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Peter James

Director of Photography

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Herbert Pinter

Production Design

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Kerrie Brown

Set Decoration

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Anna Borghesi

Costume Design

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Ziggy Golden

Makeup & Hair

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Xin Mu

Makeup Artist

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