Mao’s Last Dancer
- Released on
- Runtime
- 117 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Chi Cao
- Chengwu Guo
- Wen Bin Huang
- Joan Chen
- Bruce Greenwood
- Amanda Schull
- Kyle MacLachlan
- Jack Thompson
- Camilla Vergotis
- Madeleine Eastoe
- Steven Heathcote
- Aden Young
- Wang Shuangbao
- Barbara Bush
- George H. W. Bush
- Mao Zedong
- Bruce Greenwood
- Kip Gamblin
Director
- Bruce Beresford
Producers
- Jane Scott
Screenwriter
- Jan Sardi
